The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 78
A troop of horsemen was seen at that moment riding at full gallop towards the square.
Who acts: moment · What happens: see, ride · To what, where: troop, full gallop
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 (moment), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 troop | det |
| 2 | troop | troop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 horsemen | case |
| 4 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 troop | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seen | aux:pass |
| 6 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 moment | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 moment | det |
| 9 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seen | obl |
| 10 | riding | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 moment | acl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 gallop | case |
| 12 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gallop | amod |
| 13 | gallop | gallop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 riding | obl |
| 14 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 16 square | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 square | det |
| 16 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 riding | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | a troop of horsemen | moment | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ride | gerund | that moment not said here | full gallop | towards the square | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent towards square=Trajectory |
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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