The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 22

As they continued their road their numbers grew daily smaller, for the knights turned off one by one to their own homes, and only the brothers and sister finally drew up at the gate of the palace.

Who acts: Bahman, road, knights, brothers · What happens: continue, grow, turn off, draw up · To what, where: one, gate

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, road, knights, brothers), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 continued	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 continued	nsubj
3	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 road	nmod:poss
5	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grew	nsubj
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 numbers	nmod:poss
7	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grew	nsubj
8	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 continued	ccomp
9	daily	daily	ADV	_	10 smaller	advmod
10	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 grew	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 turned	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 turned	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 knights	det
14	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 turned	nsubj
15	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grew	conj
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 turned	compound:prt
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 turned	obj
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 one	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 one	nmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 homes	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 homes	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 homes	amod
23	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 one	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 drew	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 drew	cc
26	only	only	ADV	_	28 brothers	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 brothers	det
28	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 drew	nsubj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sister	cc
30	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brothers	conj
31	finally	finally	ADV	_	32 drew	advmod
32	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 continued	conj
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 drew	compound:prt
34	at	at	ADP	_	36 gate	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 gate	det
36	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 drew	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 palace	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 palace	det
39	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gate	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	continue	past	Bahman				vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	grow	past	Bahman's road			small property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	turn off	past	the knights	one		by one to Bahman's own homes	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient
4	draw up	past	the brothers and sister		the gate of the palace	finally property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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