The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 51

Now the leader of these horsemen was the Sultan of Cashmere, returning from the chase, and he instantly turned to the Indian to inquire who he was, and whom he had with him.

Who acts: leader, Sultan, Cashmere · What happens: be, return, turn, inquire, have · To what, where: Sultan, chase

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 (leader, Sultan, Cashmere), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 leader	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 leader	det
3	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Sultan	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 horsemen	case
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 horsemen	det
6	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 leader	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Sultan	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sultan	det
9	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Cashmere	case
11	Cashmere	Cashmere	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Sultan	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 returning	punct
13	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 Sultan	acl
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 chase	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 chase	det
16	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 returning	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 turned	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 turned	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 turned	nsubj
20	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	21 turned	advmod
21	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Sultan	acl:relcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 Indian	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Indian	det
24	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 turned	xcomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 inquire	mark
26	inquire	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 Indian	xcomp
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 inquire	obj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 was	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 who	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 whom	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 whom	cc
32	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 turned	obl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 whom	acl:relcl
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 Sultan	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the leader of this horsemen	the Sultan		of Cashmere	tree rules
2	return	gerund	the Sultan not said here		the chase		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from chase=Initial_Location
3	turn	past	Cashmere	the Sultan		indian, instantly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sultan=Theme
4	inquire speech: other	to-infinitive	Cashmere not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent who=Recipient
5	have	past	Cashmere			with Sultan	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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