The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 101
Then, as arranged, they turned their horses' heads towards the palace, and while Prince Bahman remained by the side of the Sultan, Prince Perviz rode on to warn his sister of their approach.
Who acts: pearls, Bahman, Prince · What happens: arrange, turn, remain, ride on, warn, approach · To what, where: heads, palace, sister
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pearls, Bahman, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 turned | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 arranged | mark |
| 4 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 turned | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 arranged | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 turned | nsubj |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 horses | nmod:poss |
| 9 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 heads | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 9 horses | case |
| 11 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 turned | obj |
| 12 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 palace | det |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 remained | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 remained | cc |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 remained | mark |
| 18 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Bahman | nmod:desc |
| 19 | Bahman | Bahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 remained | nsubj |
| 20 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turned | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 side | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 side | det |
| 23 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 remained | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Sultan | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Sultan | det |
| 26 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 side | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 rode | punct |
| 28 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 rode | nsubj |
| 29 | Perviz | Perviz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Prince | flat |
| 30 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turned | conj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 rode | compound:prt |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 warn | mark |
| 33 | warn | warn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 rode | advcl |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 sister | nmod:poss |
| 35 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 warn | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 approach | case |
| 37 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 approach | nmod:poss |
| 38 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sister | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrange | participle | pearls = pearl not said here | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | turn | past | pearls = pearl | pearls's horses's heads | the palace | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme towards palace=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | remain | past | Bahman Prince | by the side of the Sultan | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Location | ||||
| 4 | ride on | past | Prince | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | warn speech: warn | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | Prince's sister of pearls's approach | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | approach | pearls = pearl | nom approach «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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