The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 33

When the Sultan of Persia saw the horse and its riders, he stopped short with astonishment and horror, and broke out into oaths and curses, which the Indian heard quite unmoved, knowing that he was perfectly safe from pursuit.

Who acts: Sultan, Indian · What happens: see, stop, break out, hear, know, be · To what, where: horse, oaths, curses, pursuit · 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, Indian), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sultan	det
3	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 saw	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Persia	case
5	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Sultan	nmod
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stopped	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 riders	cc
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 riders	nmod:poss
11	riders	rider	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 horse	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stopped	nsubj
14	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stopped	xcomp
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 astonishment	case
17	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 short	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 horror	cc
19	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 astonishment	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 broke	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 broke	cc
22	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 stopped	conj
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 broke	compound:prt
24	into	into	ADP	_	25 oaths	case
25	oaths	oath	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 broke	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 curses	cc
27	curses	curse	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 oaths	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 heard	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 heard	obj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Indian	det
31	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 heard	nsubj
32	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 curses	parataxis
33	quite	quite	ADV	_	34 unmoved	advmod
34	unmoved	unmoved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 heard	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 knowing	punct
36	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 heard	advcl
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 safe	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 safe	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 safe	cop
40	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	41 safe	advmod
41	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 knowing	ccomp
42	from	from	ADP	_	43 pursuit	case
43	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 safe	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the Sultan of Persia	the horse and Indian's riders			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus
2	stop	past	Sultan			short property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	break out	past	Sultan not said here			into oaths and curses result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into oath=Result
4	hear	past	the Indian	curses		unmoved property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
5	know	gerund	the Indian not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past	Sultan		pursuit	perfectly, safe property	tree rules

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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