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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 77

The sun had not long risen before the Sultan, who was anxious to leave nothing undone that might deliver the princess, arrived with a large suite at the gate of the monastery, and was received by the dervishes with profound respect.

Who acts: sun, Sultan, dervishes · What happens: rise, be, leave, deliver, arrive, receive · To what, where: Sultan, nothing, princess

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, Sultan, dervishes), 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

detnsubjauxadvmodadvmodcasedetoblpunctnsubjcopamodmarkadvclobjamodnsubjauxacl:relcldetobjpunctadvclcasedetamodoblcasedetnmodcasedetnmodpunctccaux:passconjcasedetoblcaseamodnmodpunctrootTheDETsunNOUNhadAUXnotPARTlongADVrisenVERBbeforeADPtheDETSultanPROPN,PUNCTwhoPRONwasAUXanxiousADJtoPARTleaveVERBnothingPRONundoneADJthatPRONmightAUXdeliverVERBtheDETprincessNOUN,PUNCTarrivedVERBwithADPaDETlargeADJsuiteNOUNatADPtheDETgateNOUNofADPtheDETmonasteryNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwasAUXreceivedVERBbyADPtheDETdervishesNOUNwithADPprofoundADJrespectNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 sundet
2sunsunNOUNNumber=Sing6 risennsubj
3hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 risenaux
4notnotPARTPolarity=Neg5 longadvmod
5longlongADVDegree=Pos6 risenadvmod
6risenriseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
7beforebeforeADP_9 Sultancase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 Sultandet
9SultanSultanPROPNNumber=Sing6 risenobl
10,,PUNCT_13 anxiouspunct
11whowhoPRONPronType=Rel13 anxiousnsubj
12wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 anxiouscop
13anxiousanxiousADJDegree=Pos9 Sultanamod
14totoPART_15 leavemark
15leaveleaveVERBVerbForm=Inf13 anxiousadvcl
16nothingnothingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Neg15 leaveobj
17undoneundoneADJDegree=Pos16 nothingamod
18thatthatPRONPronType=Rel20 delivernsubj
19mightmightAUXVerbForm=Fin20 deliveraux
20deliverdeliverVERBVerbForm=Inf16 nothingacl:relcl
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 princessdet
22princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing20 deliverobj
23,,PUNCT_24 arrivedpunct
24arrivedarriveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 risenadvcl
25withwithADP_28 suitecase
26aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 suitedet
27largelargeADJDegree=Pos28 suiteamod
28suitesuiteNOUNNumber=Sing24 arrivedobl
29atatADP_31 gatecase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 gatedet
31gategateNOUNNumber=Sing28 suitenmod
32ofofADP_34 monasterycase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 monasterydet
34monasterymonasteryNOUNNumber=Sing31 gatenmod
35,,PUNCT_38 receivedpunct
36andandCCONJ_38 receivedcc
37wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin38 receivedaux:pass
38receivedreceiveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass24 arrivedconj
39bybyADP_41 dervishescase
40thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 dervishesdet
41dervishesdervishNOUNNumber=Plur38 receivedobl
42withwithADP_44 respectcase
43profoundprofoundADJDegree=Pos44 respectamod
44respectrespectNOUNNumber=Sing41 dervishesnmod
45..PUNCT_6 risenpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1risepast · perfectthe sunthe Sultanlong propertyvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before sultan=Location
2ispastthe Sultananxious propertytree rules
3leaveto-infinitivethe Sultan not said herenothingvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
4delivermightthe princessvn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
5arrivepastthe sun not said herewith a large suite at the gate of the monasteryvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6receivepast · passivethe dervishes with profound respectvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: 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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