The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 13
All the way through the streets he was welcomed with shouts of joy by the people, who had long lost all hope of seeing him again.
Who acts: streets, way, people, hope · What happens: welcome, shout, lose, see · To what, where: way, hope
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 (streets, way, people, hope), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 way | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shouts | nsubj |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 streets | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 streets | det |
| 6 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 way | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 welcomed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 welcomed | aux:pass |
| 9 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 streets | acl:relcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 welcomed | obl |
| 11 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 joy | case |
| 13 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shouts | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 people | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 people | det |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shouts | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lost | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 lost | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 lost | aux |
| 20 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 lost | advmod |
| 21 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 people | acl:relcl |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 hope | det |
| 23 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 lost | obj |
| 24 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 25 seeing | mark |
| 25 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 hope | acl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 seeing | obj |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 seeing | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 shouts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | welcome | past · passive | the streets not said here | way | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | present | all way through the streets | of joy; by the people | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lose | past · perfect | the people | all hope | long property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | see | gerund | all hope not said here | way | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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