The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 20
Then they rode away, followed by the knights and gentlemen, who begged to be permitted to escort them.
Who acts: Bahman, knights · What happens: ride away, follow, beg, permit, escort · To what, where: Bahman · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Bahman, knights), 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 | 3 rode | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 rode | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 followed | punct |
| 6 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rode | conj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 knights | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 knights | det |
| 9 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 followed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gentlemen | cc |
| 11 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 knights | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 begged | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 begged | nsubj |
| 14 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 knights | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 permitted | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 permitted | aux:pass |
| 17 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 begged | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 escort | mark |
| 19 | escort | escort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 permitted | xcomp |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 escort | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride away | past | Bahman | then | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | follow | participle | Bahman not said here | by the knights and gentlemen | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by knight=Location | ||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | the knights and gentlemen | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | permit not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | escort not said to happen | to-infinitive | Bahman | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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