The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 75
The Sultan looked round to discover who it was who thus bemoaned his fate, and at last saw a handsome young man, richly clothed, who was sitting on a throne raised slightly from the ground.
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: look, discover, be, see, clothe, sit · To what, where: handsome young man, last, throne, ground
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 looked | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 discover | mark |
| 6 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 round | xcomp |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 bemoaned | nsubj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bemoaned | nsubj:outer |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bemoaned | cop |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 bemoaned | nsubj |
| 11 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 12 bemoaned | advmod |
| 12 | bemoaned | bemoan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 discover | ccomp |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fate | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bemoaned | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 last | case |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 saw | obl |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 21 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 clothed | punct |
| 25 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 26 clothed | advmod |
| 26 | clothed | clothe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 saw | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 sitting | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 sitting | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 sitting | aux |
| 30 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 clothed | advcl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 throne | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 throne | det |
| 33 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sitting | obl |
| 34 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 throne | acl |
| 35 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 34 raised | advmod |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 ground | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 ground | det |
| 38 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 raised | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the Sultan | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | discover | to-infinitive | the Sultan not said here | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | past | bemoan, thus property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | see | past | a handsome young man | last | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | clothe | participle | richly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | sit | past · progressive | a throne | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on throne=Location | |||||
| 7 | raise | participle | a throne not said here | the ground | slightly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent from ground=Destination | |||
| 8 | fate | Sultan | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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