The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 86
So saying, Prince Bahman bade them farewell once more, and started on the high road, well mounted and fully armed.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: say, bade, start, mount · To what, where: preparations, high road · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 bade | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bade | nsubj |
| 5 | Bahman | Bahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Prince | flat |
| 6 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bade | obj |
| 8 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 9 once | advmod |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 bade | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 started | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 started | cc |
| 13 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bade | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 road | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 road | det |
| 16 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 road | amod |
| 17 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 started | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mounted | punct |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 mounted | advmod |
| 20 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 started | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 armed | cc |
| 22 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 23 armed | advmod |
| 23 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mounted | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Prince not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bade | past | Prince | preparations = preparation | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | start | past | Prince not said here | the high road | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | mount | participle | well property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: 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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