The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 44

One day the huntsman roused a stag, and the prince, thinking that the vizir was behind, gave chase, and rode so hard that he found himself alone.

Who acts: huntsman, vizir · What happens: rouse, think, be, give, ride, find · To what, where: stag, chase, vizir

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huntsman, vizir), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 roused	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 huntsman	det
4	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 roused	nsubj
5	roused	rouse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stag	det
7	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 roused	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 prince	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 prince	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 prince	det
11	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 roused	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thinking	punct
13	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 roused	advcl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 behind	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 vizir	det
16	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 behind	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 behind	cop
18	behind	behind	ADV	_	13 thinking	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gave	punct
20	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 roused	parataxis
21	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gave	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rode	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 rode	cc
24	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 gave	conj
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 hard	advmod
26	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 rode	advmod
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 found	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 found	nsubj
29	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 rode	advcl
30	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 found	obj
31	alone	alone	ADV	_	29 found	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 roused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	rouse	past	the huntsman	a stag	day		vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=Patient
2	think speech: other	gerund	the huntsman not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the vizir			behind property	tree rules
4	give	past		chase			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chase=Theme
5	ride	past				hard property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	find	past	vizir	vizir		alone property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/4/44/