The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 56

Here they were presented one by one, and when they had bowed before the Sultan, the sovereign abruptly put the question to them:

Who acts: ladies, sovereign · What happens: present, bow, put · To what, where: ladies, Sultan, question

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 (ladies, sovereign), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 presented	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 presented	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 presented	aux:pass
4	presented	present	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 presented	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 one	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bowed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bowed	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 bowed	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bowed	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bowed	aux
13	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 presented	conj
14	before	before	ADP	_	16 Sultan	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Sultan	det
16	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 bowed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sovereign	det
19	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	nsubj
20	abruptly	abruptly	ADV	_	21 put	advmod
21	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 Sultan	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 question	det
23	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 put	obl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 presented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	present	past · passive		ladies = lady		here		tree rules
2	bow	past · perfect	ladies = lady			the Sultan		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before sultan=Location
3	put	past	the sovereign	the question	ladies = lady		abruptly property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Goal

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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