The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 58
The Sultan commanded a horse to be given her, and conducted her to his own palace, where he led her to a beautiful apartment, and selected female slaves to wait on her, and eunuchs to be her guard.
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: command, give, conduct, lead, select, wait · To what, where: horse, Princess, own palace, beautiful apartment, female slaves, guard · 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 commanded | nsubj |
| 3 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 commanded | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 given | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 given | aux:pass |
| 8 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 commanded | advcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 given | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 conducted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 conducted | cc |
| 12 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 commanded | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 conducted | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 palace | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 palace | amod |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 conducted | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 led | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 led | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 led | nsubj |
| 21 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 palace | acl:relcl |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 led | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 apartment | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 apartment | det |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 apartment | amod |
| 26 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 led | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 selected | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 selected | cc |
| 29 | selected | select | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 commanded | conj |
| 30 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 slaves | amod |
| 31 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 selected | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 wait | mark |
| 33 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 selected | advcl |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 her | case |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 wait | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 eunuchs | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 eunuchs | cc |
| 38 | eunuchs | eunuch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 commanded | parataxis |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 guard | mark |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 guard | cop |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 guard | nmod:poss |
| 42 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 eunuchs | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | the Sultan | a horse | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive · passive | the Sultan not said here | Princess | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | conduct | past | the Sultan not said here | Princess | Sultan's own palace | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to palace=Destination | |||
| 4 | lead | past | Sultan | Princess | a beautiful apartment | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to apartment=Destination | |||
| 5 | select | past | the Sultan not said here | female slaves | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme | ||||
| 6 | wait | to-infinitive | the Sultan not said here | on Princess | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on she=Location | ||||
| 7 | is a | to-infinitive | the Sultan not said here | Princess's guard | 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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