The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 36
The princes jumped on their horses and followed the Sultan at a little distance.
Who acts: princes · What happens: jump, follow · To what, where: Sultan
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 (princes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princes | det |
| 2 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | 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 | 3 jumped | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 followed | cc |
| 8 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sultan | det |
| 10 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 distance | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 distance | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 distance | amod |
| 14 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | the princes | on sorts's horses | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horse=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | follow | past | the princes not said here | the Sultan | at a little distance | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sultan=Theme at distance=Trajectory |
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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