The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 66

This speech was delivered in the presence of a vast multitude of people, who had gathered from all parts on the first hint of what was happening, and the news was passed from mouth to mouth in a few seconds.

Who acts: people, parts · What happens: deliver, gather, happen, pass, hint · To what, where: speech, presence, parts, news, mouth

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 (people, parts), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 speech	det
2	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 delivered	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 delivered	aux:pass
4	delivered	deliver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 presence	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 presence	det
7	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 delivered	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 multitude	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 multitude	det
10	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 multitude	amod
11	multitude	multitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 presence	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 people	case
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 multitude	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gathered	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 gathered	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gathered	aux
17	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 people	acl:relcl
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 parts	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 parts	det
20	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 gathered	obl
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 hint	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hint	det
23	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 hint	amod
24	hint	hint	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 parts	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 what	case
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 hint	nmod
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 happening	aux
28	happening	happen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 what	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 passed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 passed	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 news	det
32	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 passed	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 passed	aux:pass
34	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 delivered	conj
35	from	from	ADP	_	36 mouth	case
36	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 passed	obl
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 mouth	case
38	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 passed	obl
39	in	in	ADP	_	42 seconds	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 seconds	det
41	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 seconds	amod
42	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 passed	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 delivered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deliver	past · passive		this speech	the presence of a vast multitude of people			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	gather	past · perfect	people		all parts on the first hint of all parts on the first hint of all parts			vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from part=Source
3	happen	past · progressive						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pass	past · passive		the news	mouth	second	to mouth	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme from mouth=Initial_Location to mouth=Destination
5	hint		all parts on the first hint of all parts on the first hint					nom hint «communication intransitive»: of=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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