The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 141

He struck it, and then it was hit back by the courtiers who were playing with him.

Who acts: king, courtiers · What happens: strike, hit back, play · To what, where: horse

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, courtiers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 struck	nsubj
2	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 struck	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hit	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hit	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 hit	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hit	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hit	aux:pass
9	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 struck	parataxis
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 hit	advmod
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 courtiers	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 courtiers	det
13	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hit	obl
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 playing	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 playing	aux
16	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 courtiers	acl:relcl
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 playing	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	king	horse			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	hit back	past · passive	the courtiers	horse	then		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme
3	play	past · progressive	the courtiers			with king	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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