The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 85

On my arrival at my father's capital, I was astonished to find a large detachment of guards drawn up before the gate of the palace; they surrounded me directly I entered.

Who acts: I, my · What happens: be, find, draw up, surround, enter, arrive · To what, where: arrival, large detachment, guards, excuses, capital

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 arrival	case
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 arrival	nmod:poss
3	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 astonished	obl
4	at	at	ADP	_	8 capital	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 capital	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 father	case
8	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arrival	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 arrival	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 astonished	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 astonished	cop
12	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 find	mark
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 astonished	xcomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 detachment	det
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 detachment	amod
17	detachment	detachment	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 find	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 guards	case
19	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 detachment	nmod
20	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 guards	acl
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 drawn	compound:prt
22	before	before	ADP	_	24 gate	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 gate	det
24	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drawn	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 palace	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 palace	det
27	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gate	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 surrounded	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 surrounded	nsubj:pass
30	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 astonished	parataxis
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 surrounded	obj
32	directly	directly	ADV	_	34 entered	advmod
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 entered	nsubj
34	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 surrounded	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	I		my arrival at my father's capital		astonished property	tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	I not said here	a large detachment of guards				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detachment=Topic
3	draw up	participle		guards not said here		before the gate of the palace		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	surround	participle · passive		excuses = excuse				tree rules
5	enter	past	I				directly property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	arrive		my		my father's capital			nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent at=place
7	detach			guards				nom detachment «feeling 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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