The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 115
The Sultan sent musicians with trumpets and cymbals to meet them, so that the air resounded with music and cheers.
Who acts: Sultan, air · What happens: send, meet, resound · To what, where: musicians
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, air), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | musicians | musician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 trumpets | case |
| 6 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cymbals | cc |
| 8 | cymbals | cymbal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 trumpets | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 meet | mark |
| 10 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sent | advcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 meet | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 resounded | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 resounded | advmod |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 resounded | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 air | det |
| 16 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 resounded | nsubj |
| 17 | resounded | resound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sent | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 music | case |
| 19 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 resounded | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cheers | cc |
| 21 | cheers | cheer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 music | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the Sultan | musicians | with trumpets and cymbals | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent musician=Theme | |||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | the Sultan not said here | musicians = musician | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | resound | participle | the air | with music and cheers | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP.location V NP.theme»: agent=Location with music=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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