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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 56

As the fisherman said it was only three hours' journey away, the sultan ordered his whole court to mount and ride thither, and the fisherman led them.

Who acts: lake, sultan, whole court, fisherman · What happens: say, be, order, mount, ride, lead · To what, where: journey, whole court, mountains · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (lake, sultan, whole court, fisherman), 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

casedetoblnsubjcopadvmodnummodnmod:posscaseccompadvmodpunctdetnsubjparataxisnmod:possamodobjmarkxcompccconjadvmodpunctccdetnsubjconjobjpunctrootAsADPtheDETfishermanNOUNsaidVERBitPRONwasAUXonlyADVthreeNUMhoursNOUN'PARTjourneyNOUNawayADV,PUNCTtheDETsultanNOUNorderedVERBhisPRONwholeADJcourtNOUNtoPARTmountVERBandCCONJrideVERBthitherADV,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETfishermanNOUNledVERBthemPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AsasADP_3 fishermancase
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 fishermandet
3fishermanfishermanNOUNNumber=Sing4 saidobl
4saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 journeynsubj
6wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 journeycop
7onlyonlyADV_8 threeadvmod
8threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card9 hoursnummod
9hourshourNOUNNumber=Plur11 journeynmod:poss
10''sPART_9 hourscase
11journeyjourneyNOUNNumber=Sing4 saidccomp
12awayawayADV_11 journeyadvmod
13,,PUNCT_16 orderedpunct
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 sultandet
15sultansultanNOUNNumber=Sing16 orderednsubj
16orderedorderVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 journeyparataxis
17hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs19 courtnmod:poss
18wholewholeADJDegree=Pos19 courtamod
19courtcourtNOUNNumber=Sing16 orderedobj
20totoPART_21 mountmark
21mountmountVERBVerbForm=Inf16 orderedxcomp
22andandCCONJ_23 ridecc
23riderideVERBVerbForm=Inf21 mountconj
24thitherthitherADV_23 rideadvmod
25,,PUNCT_29 ledpunct
26andandCCONJ_29 ledcc
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 fishermandet
28fishermanfishermanNOUNNumber=Sing29 lednsubj
29ledleadVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 saidconj
30themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs29 ledobj
31..PUNCT_4 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastas the fishermanvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2is apastlakethree hours's journeyhouraway propertytree rules
3orderpastthe sultanSultan's whole courtvn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent court=Recipient clause=Topic
4mount not said to happento-infinitiveSultan's whole court not said herevn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme
5rideinfinitiveSultan's whole court not said herethither propertyvn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6leadpastthe fishermanmountains = mountainvn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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