The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 85
The king replied that he was, and he was immediately led forth, though bound hand and foot.
Who acts: king · What happens: reply, lead, bind · To what, where: king, hand
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 (king), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:2517): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 was | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 was | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 led | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 led | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 led | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 led | aux:pass |
| 11 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 12 led | advmod |
| 12 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 replied | conj |
| 13 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 12 led | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bound | punct |
| 15 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 16 bound | mark |
| 16 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 led | advcl |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bound | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 foot | cc |
| 19 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hand | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the king | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lead | past · passive | king | forth, immediately property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bind | participle | hand and foot | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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