The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 45

Meanwhile the Indian had turned the horse in such a direction that, before many hours had passed, it had entered a wood close to the capital of the kingdom of Cashmere.

Who acts: Indian · What happens: turn, pass, enter · To what, where: horse, many hours, box

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 (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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	5 turned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Indian	det
3	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turned	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turned	aux
5	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horse	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 direction	case
9	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	11 direction	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 direction	det
11	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 passed	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 passed	punct
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 passed	mark
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hours	amod
16	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 passed	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 passed	aux
18	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 direction	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 entered	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 entered	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 entered	aux
22	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 turned	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 wood	det
24	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 entered	obj
25	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wood	amod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 capital	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 capital	det
28	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 close	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 kingdom	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 kingdom	det
31	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 capital	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Cashmere	case
33	Cashmere	Cashmere	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 kingdom	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn	past · perfect	the Indian	the horse	in such direction; meanwhile property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Patient in direction=Topic
2	pass	past · perfect · passive		many hours		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient that=Theme
3	enter	past · perfect · passive		box		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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