The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 99

They entered the palace, and, after kneeling before the Sultan, stood in a half-circle round the throne with their arms crossed, while Aladdin's mother presented them to the Sultan.

Who acts: basins, mother · What happens: enter, kneel, stand, cross, present · To what, where: palace, Sultan, half circle, arms, basins

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 (basins, 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 entered	nsubj
2	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 palace	det
4	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 entered	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stood	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stood	cc
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 and	punct
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 kneeling	mark
9	kneeling	kneel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 stood	advcl
10	before	before	ADP	_	12 Sultan	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Sultan	det
12	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 kneeling	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 kneeling	punct
14	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 entered	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 circle	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 circle	det
17	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	19 circle	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 half	punct
19	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stood	obl
20	round	round	ADP	_	22 throne	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 throne	det
22	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stood	obl
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 arms	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 arms	nmod:poss
25	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 throne	nmod
26	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 arms	acl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 presented	punct
28	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 presented	mark
29	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 mother	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 Aladdin	case
31	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 presented	nsubj
32	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stood	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 presented	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 Sultan	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Sultan	det
36	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 presented	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter	past	basins = basin	the palace				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination
2	kneel	gerund				the Sultan		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before sultan=Location
3	stand	past	basins = basin not said here			a half circle	round the throne with basins's arms	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in circle=Location
4	cross	participle		basins's arms not said here				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	present	past	Aladdin's mother	basins = basin	the Sultan			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to sultan=Recipient

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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