The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 31
When all was ready, the Sultan appeared, and took his place on a platform, surrounded by the chief nobles and officers of his court.
Who acts: all, Sultan · What happens: be, appear, take, surround · To what, where: place, platform
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 ready | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | cop |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 appeared | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sultan | det |
| 7 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 appeared | nsubj |
| 8 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ready | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 appeared | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 place | nmod:poss |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 platform | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 platform | det |
| 16 | platform | platform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 surrounded | punct |
| 18 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 platform | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 nobles | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 nobles | det |
| 21 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 nobles | amod |
| 22 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 officers | cc |
| 24 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 nobles | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 court | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 court | nmod:poss |
| 27 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 officers | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | the Sultan | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | the Sultan not said here | Sultan's place | a platform | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme on platform=Destination | |||
| 4 | surround | participle | a platform not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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