The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 20
At one end of the court was a platform, and on the platform stood an amber throne supported by four ebony columns, garnished with pearls and diamonds.
Who acts: court · What happens: be, stand, support, garnish · To what, where: amber throne, one end, four ebony columns
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (court), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 end | nummod |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 platform | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 court | det |
| 6 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 platform | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 platform | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 platform | det |
| 9 | platform | platform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stood | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stood | cc |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 platform | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 platform | det |
| 14 | platform | platform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | obl |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 throne | det |
| 17 | amber | amber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 throne | compound |
| 18 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | obj |
| 19 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 throne | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 columns | case |
| 21 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 columns | nummod |
| 22 | ebony | ebony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 columns | amod |
| 23 | columns | column | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 supported | obl:agent |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 garnished | punct |
| 25 | garnished | garnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 columns | acl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 pearls | case |
| 27 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 garnished | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 diamonds | cc |
| 29 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 pearls | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the court | of a platform | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | a amber throne | at one end | on the platform | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent throne=Theme at end=Destination | |||
| 3 | support | participle | a amber throne not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | garnish | participle | four ebony columns not said here | with pearls and diamonds | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pearl=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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