The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 50
The grand-vizir and the lords of council had just gone in as she entered the hall and placed herself in front of the Sultan.
Who acts: grand vizir, mother · What happens: go in, enter, place · To what, where: hall, mother, front
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 (grand vizir, mother), 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 | 4 vizir | det |
| 2 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 vizir | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 grand | punct |
| 4 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 lords | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lords | det |
| 7 | lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 vizir | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 council | case |
| 9 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lords | nmod |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 gone | aux |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 gone | advmod |
| 12 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 gone | compound:prt |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 entered | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 entered | nsubj |
| 16 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 gone | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hall | det |
| 18 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 entered | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 placed | cc |
| 20 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 entered | conj |
| 21 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 placed | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 front | case |
| 23 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 placed | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Sultan | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Sultan | det |
| 26 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 front | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past · perfect | the grand vizir and the lords of council | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | enter | past | mother | the hall | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination | ||||
| 3 | place | past | mother not said here | mother | front of the Sultan | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in front=Destination |
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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