The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 36

When it came to the porter's turn he kissed Amina's hand, and sang a song, which he composed at the moment in praise of the wine.

Who acts: custom, Amina · What happens: come, kiss, sing, compose, praise · To what, where: turn, hand, song, wine

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 (custom, Amina), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sang	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 turn	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 porter	det
6	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turn	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 porter	case
8	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 kissed	nsubj
10	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 turn	acl:relcl
11	Amina	Amina	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 hand	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 Amina	case
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kissed	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sang	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sang	cc
16	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 song	det
18	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sang	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 composed	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 composed	obj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 composed	nsubj
22	composed	compose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 song	acl:relcl
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 moment	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 moment	det
25	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 composed	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 praise	case
27	praise	praise	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 moment	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 wine	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 wine	det
30	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 praise	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	past	custom		the porter's turn		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to turn=Initial_Location
2	kiss	past	Amina	Amina's hand			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent
3	sing speech: express	past		a song			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme
4	compose	past	Amina	a song		moment	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Result
5	praise			the wine			nom praise «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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