The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 80
Now, they were the vizir Giafar and his suite arriving at full speed from Bagdad.
Who acts: horsemen, suite · What happens: be, arrive · To what, where: Giafar, full speed
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 (horsemen, suite), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 Giafar | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Giafar | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Giafar | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Giafar | det |
| 6 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Giafar | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Giafar | Giafar | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 suite | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 suite | nmod:poss |
| 10 | suite | suite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Giafar | conj |
| 11 | arriving | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 suite | acl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 speed | case |
| 13 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 speed | amod |
| 14 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 arriving | obl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 Bagdad | case |
| 16 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 arriving | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Giafar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | horsemen = horseman | the Giafar and Saouy's suite | now | vizir nmod:desc | tree rules | ||
| 2 | arrive | gerund | Saouy's suite not said here | full speed | from Bagdad | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bagdad=Initial_Location |
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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