The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 10

He determined to alight neither in the great square from which he had started, nor in the Sultan's palace, but in a country house at a little distance from the town.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: determine, alight, start · To what, where: country house, great square

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 determined	nsubj
2	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 alight	mark
4	alight	alight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 determined	xcomp
5	neither	neither	ADV	_	4 alight	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 square	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 square	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 square	amod
9	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 alight	obl
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 which	case
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 started	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 started	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 started	aux
14	started	start	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 square	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 palace	punct
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	21 palace	cc
17	in	in	ADP	_	21 palace	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Sultan	det
19	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 palace	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 Sultan	case
21	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 determined	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 house	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 house	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 house	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 house	det
26	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 house	compound
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 determined	obl
28	at	at	ADP	_	31 distance	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 distance	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 distance	amod
31	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 house	nmod
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 town	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 town	det
34	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 distance	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	determine	past	Prince	a country house at a little distance from the town		vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	alight	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	the great square	neither property	tree rules
3	start	past · perfect	Prince	the great square		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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