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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 53

Noureddin made all haste on his journey to Balsora, and on his arrival there went straight to the palace of the king, of whom he demanded an audience.

Who acts: Noureddin · What happens: make, go, demand, journey, arrive · To what, where: haste, journey, arrival, audience

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Noureddin), 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

nsubjdetobjcasenmod:possoblcasenmodpunctcccasenmod:possobladvmodconjadvmodcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctcaseoblnsubjacl:relcldetobjpunctrootNoureddinPROPNmadeVERBallDEThasteNOUNonADPhisPRONjourneyNOUNtoADPBalsoraPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJonADPhisPRONarrivalNOUNthereADVwentVERBstraightADVtoADPtheDETpalaceNOUNofADPtheDETkingNOUN,PUNCTofADPwhomPRONhePRONdemandedVERBanDETaudienceNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NoureddinNoureddinPROPNNumber=Sing2 madensubj
2mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3allallDETPronType=Tot4 hastedet
4hastehasteNOUNNumber=Sing2 madeobj
5ononADP_7 journeycase
6hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 journeynmod:poss
7journeyjourneyNOUNNumber=Sing2 madeobl
8totoADP_9 Balsoracase
9BalsoraBalsoraPROPNNumber=Sing7 journeynmod
10,,PUNCT_16 wentpunct
11andandCCONJ_16 wentcc
12ononADP_14 arrivalcase
13hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 arrivalnmod:poss
14arrivalarrivalNOUNNumber=Sing16 wentobl
15therethereADVPronType=Dem16 wentadvmod
16wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 madeconj
17straightstraightADV_20 palaceadvmod
18totoADP_20 palacecase
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 palacedet
20palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing16 wentobl
21ofofADP_23 kingcase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 kingdet
23kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing20 palacenmod
24,,PUNCT_26 whompunct
25ofofADP_26 whomcase
26whomwhomPRONPronType=Rel16 wentobl
27hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 demandednsubj
28demandeddemandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 whomacl:relcl
29anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art30 audiencedet
30audienceaudienceNOUNNumber=Sing28 demandedobj
31..PUNCT_2 madepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1makepastNoureddinall hasteNoureddin's journey to Balsoravn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product
2gopastNoureddin not said hereNoureddin's arrival; thereto the palace of the kingvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location of whom=Destination
3demand speech: requestpastNoureddina audiencevn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme audience=Precondition
4journeyNoureddinto Balsoranom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl
5arriveNoureddinnom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=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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