The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 9

He travelled with his accustomed speed, and Prince Firouz Schah guided him so well that in two hours and a half from the time of starting, he saw the capital of Persia lying beneath him.

Who acts: Prince, Firouz, capital · What happens: travel, accustom, guide, see, lie · To what, where: Prince, capital

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 (Prince, Firouz, capital), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 travelled	nsubj
2	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 speed	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 speed	nmod:poss
5	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 speed	amod
6	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 travelled	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 guided	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 guided	cc
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Firouz	nmod:desc
10	Firouz	Firouz	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 guided	nsubj
11	Schah	Schah	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Firouz	flat
12	guided	guide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 travelled	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 guided	obj
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 well	advmod
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 guided	advmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 hours	mark
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 hours	case
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 hours	nummod
19	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 guided	obl:unmarked
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 half	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 half	det
22	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	19 hours	conj
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 time	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 time	det
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 guided	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 starting	case
27	starting	starting	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 time	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 saw	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 saw	nsubj
30	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 travelled	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 capital	det
32	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 saw	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Persia	case
34	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 capital	nmod
35	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 capital	acl
36	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 lying	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	travel	past	Prince			with Prince's accustomed speed	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	accustom	participle					tree rules
3	guide	past	Firouz Prince	Prince	hour; time	well property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	see	past	Prince	the capital of Persia			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer capital=Stimulus
5	lie	gerund	the capital of Persia not said here			beneath Prince	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath he=Location

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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