The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 37

They had not gone very far before they saw a number of wild animals appear at once, and Prince Bahman started to give chase to a lion and Prince Perviz to a bear.

Who acts: sorts, wild animals, Bahman · What happens: not go, see, appear, start, give · To what, where: number, chase, lion

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 (sorts, wild animals, Bahman), 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	4 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 far	advmod
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gone	advmod
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 saw	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 number	det
11	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 animals	case
13	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 animals	amod
14	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 appear	nsubj
15	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 number	acl:relcl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 once	case
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 appear	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 started	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 started	cc
20	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Bahman	nmod:desc
21	Bahman	Bahman	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 started	nsubj
22	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 give	mark
24	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 started	xcomp
25	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 give	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 lion	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 lion	det
28	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 give	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 Prince	cc
30	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 lion	conj
31	Perviz	Perviz	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Prince	flat
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 bear	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 bear	det
34	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 give	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	sorts = sort			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	sorts = sort	a number			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus
3	appear	present	wild animals	a number not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location number=Theme
4	start	past	Bahman Prince				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	give	to-infinitive	Bahman Prince not said here	chase	a lion and Prince	to a bear	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent chase=Theme to lion=Recipient

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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