The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 56

When the first moments of emotion were over, the Sultan hastened to finish his repast, and then turning to his children he exclaimed: "To-day you have made acquaintance with your father.

Who acts: first moments, Sultan, you · What happens: be, hasten, finish, turn, exclaim, make · To what, where: repast, children, acquaintance · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (first moments, Sultan, you), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	8 over	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moments	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 moments	amod
4	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 over	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 emotion	case
6	emotion	emotion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moments	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 over	cop
8	over	over	ADV	_	12 hastened	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 over	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sultan	det
11	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 hastened	nsubj
12	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 finish	mark
14	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hastened	xcomp
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 repast	nmod:poss
16	repast	repast	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 finish	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 turning	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 turning	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 turning	advmod
20	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 hastened	advcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 children	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 children	nmod:poss
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 turning	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 exclaimed	nsubj
25	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 children	acl:relcl
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 made	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 made	punct
28	To	to	ADP	_	30 day	case
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 To	punct
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	obl
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 made	nsubj
32	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 made	aux
33	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 hastened	parataxis
34	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 made	xcomp
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 father	case
36	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 father	nmod:poss
37	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 acquaintance	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 hastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the first moments of emotion			over property	tree rules
2	hasten	past	the Sultan				tree rules
3	finish	to-infinitive	the Sultan not said here	Sultan's repast			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality repast=Eventuality
4	turn	gerund	the Sultan not said here		then	to Sultan's children result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to child=Result
5	exclaim speech: express	past	Sultan	Sultan's children not said here			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent child=Topic
6	make in a quote	present · perfect	you	acquaintance with your father	day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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