The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 67
Early next day the Sultan and Sultana, dressed in robes of state and followed by all the court, set out for the country house of their children.
What happens: dress, follow, set out · To what, where: Sultan, robes
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: 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 day | advmod |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 set | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sultan | det |
| 5 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 set | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Sultana | cc |
| 7 | Sultana | Sultana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sultan | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dressed | punct |
| 9 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 Sultan | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 robes | case |
| 11 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dressed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 state | case |
| 13 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 robes | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 followed | cc |
| 15 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 dressed | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 court | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 court | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 court | det |
| 19 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 followed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 set | punct |
| 21 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 set | compound:prt |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 house | det |
| 25 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 house | compound |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 set | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 children | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 children | nmod:poss |
| 29 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 house | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | participle | the Sultan and Sultana not said here | robes of state | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | follow | participle | by all court | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by court=Location | |||||
| 3 | set out | participle · passive | the Sultan and Sultana | day | for the country house of house's children | 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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