The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 58

In a quarter of an hour the Indian was seen returning, bearing in his hand the palm, and, guiding his horse to the foot of the throne, he dismounted, and laid the leaf before the king.

Who acts: Indian, king · What happens: see, return, bear, guide, dismount, lay · To what, where: Indian, quarter, hand, horse, foot, leaf

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indian, king), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 quarter	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 quarter	det
3	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seen	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 hour	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hour	det
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 quarter	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Indian	det
8	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 seen	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seen	aux:pass
10	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 seen	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bearing	punct
13	bearing	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 returning	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 hand	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hand	nmod:poss
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bearing	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 palm	det
18	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hand	nmod:unmarked
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 guiding	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 guiding	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 guiding	punct
22	guiding	guide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 returning	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 horse	nmod:poss
24	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 guiding	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 foot	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 foot	det
27	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 guiding	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 throne	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 throne	det
30	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 foot	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dismounted	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 dismounted	nsubj
33	dismounted	dismount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seen	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 laid	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 laid	cc
36	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 dismounted	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 leaf	det
38	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 laid	obj
39	before	before	ADP	_	41 king	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 king	det
41	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 laid	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	see	past · passive		the Indian	a quarter of a hour		tree rules
2	return	gerund	the Indian not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bear	gerund	the Indian not said here		king's hand the palm		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	guide	gerund	the Indian not said here	king's horse	the foot of the throne		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to foot=Destination
5	dismount	past	king				vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	lay	past	king not said here	the leaf		before the king	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme before king=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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