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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 14

On reaching the palace, he found the Sultan surrounded by his ministers, all clad in the deepest mourning, and his father almost went out of his mind with surprise and delight at the mere sound of his son's voice.

Who acts: palace, father · What happens: reach, find, surround, go out, mind · To what, where: palace, Sultan, mind, mere sound

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 (palace, father), 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

markadvcldetobjpunctnsubjdetobjaclcasenmod:possobl:agentpunctadvmodconjcasedetamodoblpunctccnmod:possnsubjadvmodconjcasecasenmod:possoblcasenmodccconjcasedetamodoblcasenmod:possnmod:posscasenmodpunctrootOnSCONJreachingVERBtheDETpalaceNOUN,PUNCThePRONfoundVERBtheDETSultanPROPNsurroundedVERBbyADPhisPRONministersNOUN,PUNCTallDETcladADJinADPtheDETdeepestADJmourningNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJhisPRONfatherNOUNalmostADVwentVERBoutADPofADPhisPRONmindNOUNwithADPsurpriseNOUNandCCONJdelightNOUNatADPtheDETmereADJsoundNOUNofADPhisPRONsonNOUN'sPARTvoiceNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OnonSCONJ_2 reachingmark
2reachingreachVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part7 foundadvcl
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 palacedet
4palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing2 reachingobj
5,,PUNCT_2 reachingpunct
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 foundnsubj
7foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 Sultandet
9SultanSultanPROPNNumber=Sing7 foundobj
10surroundedsurroundVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass9 Sultanacl
11bybyADP_13 ministerscase
12hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 ministersnmod:poss
13ministersministerNOUNNumber=Plur10 surroundedobl:agent
14,,PUNCT_16 cladpunct
15allallDETPronType=Tot16 cladadvmod
16cladcladADJDegree=Pos13 ministersconj
17ininADP_20 mourningcase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 mourningdet
19deepestdeepADJDegree=Sup20 mourningamod
20mourningmourningNOUNNumber=Sing16 cladobl
21,,PUNCT_26 wentpunct
22andandCCONJ_26 wentcc
23hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs24 fathernmod:poss
24fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing26 wentnsubj
25almostalmostADV_26 wentadvmod
26wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 foundconj
27outoutADP_30 mindcase
28ofofADP_30 mindcase
29hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 mindnmod:poss
30mindmindNOUNNumber=Sing26 wentobl
31withwithADP_32 surprisecase
32surprisesurpriseNOUNNumber=Sing30 mindnmod
33andandCCONJ_34 delightcc
34delightdelightNOUNNumber=Sing30 mindconj
35atatADP_38 soundcase
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art38 sounddet
37meremereADJDegree=Pos38 soundamod
38soundsoundNOUNNumber=Sing26 wentobl
39ofofADP_43 voicecase
40hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs41 sonnmod:poss
41sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing43 voicenmod:poss
42's'sPART_41 soncase
43voicevoiceNOUNNumber=Sing38 soundnmod
44..PUNCT_7 foundpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reachgerundpalace not said herethe palacevn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme
2findpastpalacethe Sultanvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Topic
3surroundparticiplethe Sultan not said herevn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4go outpastpalace's fatherpalace's mind with surprise and delightthe mere sound of palace's son's voicealmost propertytree rules
5mindpalacewith surprisenom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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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