The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 83

Then he went towards the palace of Aladdin, and all the people thinking he was the holy woman, gathered round him, kissing his hands and begging his blessing.

Who acts: magician, people · What happens: go, think, be, gather, kiss, beg · To what, where: palace, holy woman, hands, blessing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, people), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 palace	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Aladdin	case
8	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 palace	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thinking	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 thinking	cc
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 people	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 people	det
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 thinking	nsubj
14	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 woman	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 woman	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 woman	det
18	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 woman	amod
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thinking	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gathered	punct
21	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
22	round	round	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gathered	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 kissing	punct
25	kissing	kiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 gathered	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hands	nmod:poss
27	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 kissing	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 begging	cc
29	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 kissing	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 blessing	nmod:poss
31	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 begging	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	magician		the palace of Aladdin	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards palace=Initial_Location
2	think speech: other	gerund	all people					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	magician	the holy woman				tree rules
4	gather	past	magician not said here				round magician	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	kiss	gerund	magician not said here	magician's hands				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent
6	beg speech: request	gerund	magician not said here	magician's blessing				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent blessing=Recipient
7	bless		magician					nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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