The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 68
Here the Sultan presented them to the Sultana one by one, and for some time there was nothing but embraces and tears and tender words.
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: present · To what, where: house, one
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), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 presented | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sultan | det |
| 3 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 presented | nsubj |
| 4 | presented | present | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 presented | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 8 | Sultana | Sultana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 presented | obl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 one | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 time | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 time | cc |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 presented | obl |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 time | acl:relcl |
| 19 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 was | nsubj |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 embraces | cc |
| 21 | embraces | embrace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 nothing | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 tears | cc |
| 23 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 embraces | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 words | cc |
| 25 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 words | amod |
| 26 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 embraces | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 presented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | present | past | the Sultan | house | the one Sultana by one | here | time | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to one=Recipient |
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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