The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 29

They threw themselves from their horses and prostrated themselves to the earth, but the Sultan was curious to see their faces, and commanded them to rise.

Who acts: people, Sultan · What happens: throw, prostrate, be, see, command, rise · To what, where: people, faces · 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 (people, Sultan), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 threw	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 horses	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horses	nmod:poss
6	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 threw	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 prostrated	cc
8	prostrated	prostrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 prostrated	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 earth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 earth	det
12	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 prostrated	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 curious	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 curious	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Sultan	det
16	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 curious	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 curious	cop
18	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 threw	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 see	mark
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 curious	advcl
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 faces	nmod:poss
22	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 see	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 commanded	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 commanded	cc
25	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 commanded	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 rise	mark
28	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 commanded	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	throw	past	people	people	from people's horses	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme from horse=Initial_Location
2	prostrate	past	people not said here	people	to the earth	tree rules
3	is	past	the Sultan		curious property	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	the Sultan not said here	people's faces		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus
5	command	past	people not said here	people		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
6	rise not said to happen	to-infinitive	people not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «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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