The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 65

He climbed one of the hills, and then crossed the great plain, till, just as the sun rose, he beheld far in front of him a large building.

Who acts: Sultan, sun · What happens: climb, cross, rise, behold · To what, where: one, great plain, large building, front

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 (Sultan, sun), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 climbed	nsubj
2	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 climbed	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 hills	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hills	det
6	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 crossed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 crossed	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 crossed	advmod
10	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 climbed	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 plain	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 plain	amod
13	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crossed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 till	punct
15	till	till	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 plain	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rose	punct
17	just	just	ADV	_	21 rose	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 rose	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sun	det
20	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rose	nsubj
21	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 crossed	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 beheld	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 beheld	nsubj
24	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 climbed	conj
25	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 beheld	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 front	case
27	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 beheld	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 front	nmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 building	det
31	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 building	amod
32	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 beheld	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past	Sultan	one of the hills				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location one=Theme
2	cross	past		the great plain and till		then		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plain=Patient
3	rise	past	the sun					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	behold	past	Sultan	a large building	front of sun		far property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer building=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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