The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 83
Giafar rode at full speed through the square, and alighted at the steps of the palace, where the king came to greet him.
Who acts: Giafar, king · What happens: ride, alight, come, greet, step · To what, where: full speed, king, palace
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 (Giafar, king), 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 | Giafar | Giafar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 speed | case |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 speed | amod |
| 5 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | obl |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 square | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 square | det |
| 8 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 alighted | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 alighted | cc |
| 11 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 rode | conj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 steps | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 steps | det |
| 14 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 alighted | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 steps | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 came | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 king | det |
| 21 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 palace | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 greet | mark |
| 24 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 came | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 greet | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | Giafar | full speed | through the square | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through square=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | alight | participle | Giafar not said here | at the steps of the palace | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | greet speech: greet | to-infinitive | the king not said here | king | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | step | the palace | nom step «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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