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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 56

When Prince Perviz reached the foot of the mountain he jumped from his horse, and paused for a moment to recall the instructions the dervish had given him.

Who acts: Prince, instructions · What happens: reach, jump, pause, recall, give · To what, where: foot, instructions, dervish, Prince

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, instructions), 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

marknsubjflatadvcldetobjcasedetnmodnsubjcasenmod:possoblpunctccconjcasedetoblmarkadvcldetobjdetnsubj:passauxacl:relcliobjpunctrootWhenSCONJPrincePROPNPervizPROPNreachedVERBtheDETfootNOUNofADPtheDETmountainNOUNhePRONjumpedVERBfromADPhisPRONhorseNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJpausedVERBforADPaDETmomentNOUNtoPARTrecallVERBtheDETinstructionsNOUNtheDETdervishNOUNhadAUXgivenVERBhimPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenSCONJ_4 reachedmark
2PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing4 reachednsubj
3PervizPervizPROPNNumber=Sing2 Princeflat
4reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 jumpedadvcl
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 footdet
6footfootNOUNNumber=Sing4 reachedobj
7ofofADP_9 mountaincase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 mountaindet
9mountainmountainNOUNNumber=Sing6 footnmod
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 jumpednsubj
11jumpedjumpVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12fromfromADP_14 horsecase
13hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 horsenmod:poss
14horsehorseNOUNNumber=Sing11 jumpedobl
15,,PUNCT_17 pausedpunct
16andandCCONJ_17 pausedcc
17pausedpauseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 jumpedconj
18forforADP_20 momentcase
19aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art20 momentdet
20momentmomentNOUNNumber=Sing17 pausedobl
21totoPART_22 recallmark
22recallrecallVERBVerbForm=Inf17 pausedadvcl
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 instructionsdet
24instructionsinstructionNOUNNumber=Plur22 recallobj
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 dervishdet
26dervishdervishNOUNNumber=Sing28 givennsubj:pass
27hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 givenaux
28givengiveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass24 instructionsacl:relcl
29himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 giveniobj
30..PUNCT_11 jumpedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reachpastPrincethe foot of the mountainvn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
2jumppastPrincefrom Prince's horsevn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from horse=Trajectory
3pausepastPrince not said heremomentvn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4recallto-infinitivePrince not said herethe instructionsvn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme
5givepast · perfect · passivethe instructions not said herethe dervishPrincevn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=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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