The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 24
His commands were obeyed, and the Indian was led into his presence, surrounded by guards. "
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: obey, lead, surround, command · To what, where: commands, Indian, presence · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sultan), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 commands | nmod:poss |
| 2 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 obeyed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 obeyed | aux:pass |
| 4 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 led | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 led | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Indian | det |
| 8 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 led | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 led | aux:pass |
| 10 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 obeyed | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 presence | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 presence | nmod:poss |
| 13 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 led | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 surrounded | punct |
| 15 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 obeyed | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 guards | case |
| 17 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 obeyed | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past · passive | Sultan's commands | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lead | past · passive | the Indian | Sultan's presence | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into presence=Destination | ||||
| 3 | surround | participle | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | command | Sultan | nom command «communication 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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