The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 47
The next morning when they went to hunt they met the Sultan in the same place, and he inquired what advice their sister had given.
Who acts: adventures, Sultan · What happens: go, hunt, meet, inquire, give · To what, where: Sultan, same place, advice
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 (adventures, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 went | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hunt | mark |
| 8 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | xcomp |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 met | nsubj |
| 10 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hunt | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sultan | det |
| 12 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 met | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 place | amod |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 met | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 inquired | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 inquired | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 inquired | nsubj |
| 20 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 21 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 inquired | obj |
| 22 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 given | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 sister | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 given | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 given | aux |
| 26 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 what | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | adventures = adventure | morning | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hunt | to-infinitive | adventures = adventure not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | meet | past | adventures = adventure | the Sultan | the same place | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | inquire speech: other | past | Sultan | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | give | past · perfect · passive | advice | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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