The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 37

On approaching the house, the Sultan noticed a vast quantity of birds, whose voices filled the air, and he inquired why they were so much more numerous here than in any other part of the garden.

Who acts: Sultan, voices · What happens: approach, notice, fill, inquire, be · To what, where: house, vast quantity, air

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, voices), 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	On	on	ADP	_	2 approaching	case
2	approaching	approach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 noticed	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 approaching	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 approaching	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sultan	det
7	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 noticed	nsubj
8	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 quantity	det
10	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 quantity	amod
11	quantity	quantity	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 noticed	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 birds	case
13	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 quantity	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 filled	punct
15	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	16 voices	nmod:poss
16	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 filled	nsubj
17	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 quantity	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 air	det
19	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 filled	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 inquired	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 inquired	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 inquired	nsubj
23	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 noticed	conj
24	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	30 numerous	advmod
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 numerous	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 numerous	cop
27	so	so	ADV	_	30 numerous	advmod
28	much	much	ADV	_	29 more	advmod
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 numerous	advmod
30	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 inquired	ccomp
31	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 numerous	advmod
32	than	than	ADP	_	36 part	case
33	in	in	ADP	_	36 part	case
34	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	36 part	det
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 part	amod
36	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 numerous	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 garden	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 garden	det
39	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 part	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	approach	gerund	the Sultan not said here	the house			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
2	notice	past	the Sultan	a vast quantity of birds			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer quantity=Stimulus
3	fill	past	voices	the air			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient
4	inquire speech: other	past	Sultan				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	voices = voice		here	than any other part of the garden; numerous property	tree rules

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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