The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 118

He dismounted, fastened his horse to a branch of the tree, and sat by the fountain, after having taken from his wallet some of his dates and biscuits.

Who acts: Scheherazade · What happens: dismount, fasten, sit, take · To what, where: horse, some, wallet

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scheherazade), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dismounted	nsubj
2	dismounted	dismount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fastened	punct
4	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dismounted	conj
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horse	nmod:poss
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fastened	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 branch	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 branch	det
9	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fastened	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 tree	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 branch	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sat	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sat	cc
15	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dismounted	parataxis
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 fountain	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 fountain	det
18	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sat	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 taken	punct
20	after	after	SCONJ	_	22 taken	mark
21	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 taken	aux
22	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 sat	conj
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 wallet	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wallet	nmod:poss
25	wallet	wallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 taken	obl
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 taken	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 dates	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 dates	nmod:poss
29	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 some	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 biscuits	cc
31	biscuits	biscuit	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 dates	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dismounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dismount	past	Scheherazade				vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	fasten	past	Scheherazade not said here	Scheherazade's horse		to a branch of the tree	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient to branch=Co-Patient
3	sit	past				by the fountain	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fountain=Location
4	take	gerund · perfect		some	Scheherazade's wallet		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent some=Theme from wallet=Initial_Location

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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