The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 68

He passed through a magnificent courtyard and still saw no one, though he called aloud several times.

Who acts: Sultan · What happens: pass, see, call · To what, where: magnificent courtyard, one · 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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 passed	nsubj
2	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	6 courtyard	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 courtyard	det
5	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 courtyard	amod
6	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passed	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 saw	cc
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 saw	advmod
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 called	punct
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 called	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 called	nsubj
15	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	conj
16	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	15 called	advmod
17	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 times	amod
18	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 called	obl:unmarked
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	Sultan		a magnificent courtyard			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through courtyard=Location
2	see	past	Sultan not said here	no one		still		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
3	call	past	Sultan			time	aloud property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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