The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 127
The Sultan's suite, who had encamped by the lake, were not a little astonished to see themselves in the middle of a large and beautiful town.
Who acts: suite · What happens: encamp, not be, see · To what, where: houses, middle
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (suite), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 suite | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Sultan | case |
| 4 | suite | suite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 astonished | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 encamped | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 encamped | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 encamped | aux |
| 8 | encamped | encamp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 suite | acl:relcl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 lake | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lake | det |
| 11 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 encamped | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 suite | punct |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 astonished | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 astonished | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 little | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 astonished | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 astonished | xcomp |
| 20 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 see | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 middle | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 middle | det |
| 23 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 town | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 town | det |
| 26 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 town | amod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 beautiful | cc |
| 28 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 large | conj |
| 29 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 middle | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | encamp | past · perfect | the Sultan's suite | by the lake | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | the Sultan's suite | a little obl:unmarked; astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the Sultan's suite not said here | houses = house | the middle of a large town | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus |
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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