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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 74

Arrived at the palace, Saouy went in to the king, leaving Noureddin in the square, hemmed in not only by Saouy's slaves but by the royal guard, who had great difficulty in preventing the people from rushing in and rescuing Noureddin.

Who acts: Saouy, slaves, great difficulty · What happens: arrive, go in, leave, hem, have, prevent · To what, where: palace, Noureddin, square, great difficulty, people

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 (Saouy, slaves, great difficulty), 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

advclcasedetoblpunctnsubjadvmodcasedetoblpunctadvclobjcasedetoblpunctaclcaseadvmodadvmodcasenmod:posscaseoblcccasedetamodconjpunctnsubjconjamodobjmarkacldetobjmarkadvcladvmodccconjobjpunctrootArrivedVERBatADPtheDETpalaceNOUN,PUNCTSaouyPROPNwentVERBinADVtoADPtheDETkingNOUN,PUNCTleavingVERBNoureddinPROPNinADPtheDETsquareNOUN,PUNCThemmedVERBinADPnotPARTonlyADVbyADPSaouyPROPN'sPARTslavesNOUNbutCCONJbyADPtheDETroyalADJguardNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONhadVERBgreatADJdifficultyNOUNinSCONJpreventingVERBtheDETpeopleNOUNfromSCONJrushingVERBinADVandCCONJrescuingVERBNoureddinPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ArrivedarriveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass7 wentadvcl
2atatADP_4 palacecase
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 palacedet
4palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing1 Arrivedobl
5,,PUNCT_1 Arrivedpunct
6SaouySaouyPROPNNumber=Sing7 wentnsubj
7wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8ininADV_7 wentadvmod
9totoADP_11 kingcase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 kingdet
11kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing7 wentobl
12,,PUNCT_13 leavingpunct
13leavingleaveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part7 wentadvcl
14NoureddinNoureddinPROPNNumber=Sing13 leavingobj
15ininADP_17 squarecase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 squaredet
17squaresquareNOUNNumber=Sing13 leavingobl
18,,PUNCT_19 hemmedpunct
19hemmedhemVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass17 squareacl
20ininADP_26 slavescase
21notnotPARTPolarity=Neg26 slavesadvmod
22onlyonlyADV_26 slavesadvmod
23bybyADP_26 slavescase
24SaouySaouyPROPNNumber=Sing26 slavesnmod:poss
25's'sPART_24 Saouycase
26slavesslaveNOUNNumber=Plur19 hemmedobl
27butbutCCONJ_31 guardcc
28bybyADP_31 guardcase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 guarddet
30royalroyalADJDegree=Pos31 guardamod
31guardguardNOUNNumber=Sing26 slavesconj
32,,PUNCT_34 hadpunct
33whowhoPRONPronType=Rel34 hadnsubj
34hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 slavesconj
35greatgreatADJDegree=Pos36 difficultyamod
36difficultydifficultyNOUNNumber=Sing34 hadobj
37ininSCONJ_38 preventingmark
38preventingpreventVERBVerbForm=Ger36 difficultyacl
39thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 peopledet
40peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur38 preventingobj
41fromfromSCONJ_42 rushingmark
42rushingrushVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part38 preventingadvcl
43ininADV_42 rushingadvmod
44andandCCONJ_45 rescuingcc
45rescuingrescueVERBVerbForm=Ger38 preventingconj
46NoureddinNoureddinPROPNNumber=Sing45 rescuingobj
47..PUNCT_7 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1arriveparticipleSaouy not said herethe palacevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2go inpastSaouyto the kingvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location
3leavegerundSaouy not said hereNoureddinthe squarevn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent noureddin=Theme in square=Location
4hemparticiplethe square not said herein Saouy's slaves but the royal guardvn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in slave=Theme
5havepastSaouy's slaves but the royal guardgreat difficultyvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Patient
6preventgerundgreat difficulty not said herethe peoplevn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer people=Theme
7rush ingerundgreat difficulty not said herevn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8rescuegerundgreat difficulty not said hereNoureddinvn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noureddin=Theme

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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