The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 71
In the evening they rode together back to the capital, the princes on each side of their father, and the princess with her mother.
Who acts: house · What happens: ride back · To what, where: princess, capital
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 (house), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rode | nsubj |
| 5 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 rode | advmod |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 rode | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 capital | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 capital | det |
| 10 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 princes | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 princes | det |
| 13 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 capital | appos |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 side | case |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 side | det |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 princes | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 father | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 side | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 princess | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 princess | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 princess | det |
| 23 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 mother | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mother | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 princess | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride back | past | house | the princess with princess's mother | the capital | evening | together property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to capital=Trajectory |
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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