The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 99
The next morning the princes started for the forest, and were soon joined by the Sultan.
Who acts: princes, Sultan · What happens: start, join
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, 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 started | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princes | det |
| 5 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 started | nsubj |
| 6 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 forest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 forest | det |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 started | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 joined | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 joined | cc |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 joined | aux:pass |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 joined | advmod |
| 14 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 started | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 Sultan | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Sultan | det |
| 17 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 joined | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | the princes | morning | for the forest | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | join | past · passive | the Sultan | soon property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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