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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 50

I followed it, and after me came a great procession, headed by the king and all his nobles, and in this order we reached the fatal mountain, which was one of a lofty chain bordering the sea.

Who acts: I, me, we, fatal mountain, lofty chain · What happens: follow, come, head, reach, be, border · To what, where: bier, great procession, fatal mountain, order, one, sea

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, me, we, fatal mountain), 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

nsubjobjpunctccmarknsubjparataxisdetamodobjpunctaclcasedetoblccdet:predetnmod:possconjpunctcccasedetoblnsubjconjdetamodobjpunctnsubjcopapposcasedetamodnmodacldetobjpunctrootIPRONfollowedVERBitPRON,PUNCTandCCONJafterSCONJmePRONcameVERBaDETgreatADJprocessionNOUN,PUNCTheadedVERBbyADPtheDETkingNOUNandCCONJallDEThisPRONnoblesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJinADPthisDETorderNOUNwePRONreachedVERBtheDETfatalADJmountainNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONwasAUXoneNUMofADPaDETloftyADJchainNOUNborderingVERBtheDETseaNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs2 followednsubj
2followedfollowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 followedobj
4,,PUNCT_8 camepunct
5andandCCONJ_8 camecc
6afterafterSCONJ_8 camemark
7meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs8 camensubj
8camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 followedparataxis
9aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 processiondet
10greatgreatADJDegree=Pos11 processionamod
11processionprocessionNOUNNumber=Sing8 cameobj
12,,PUNCT_13 headedpunct
13headedheadVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass11 processionacl
14bybyADP_16 kingcase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 kingdet
16kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing13 headedobl
17andandCCONJ_20 noblescc
18allallDETPronType=Tot20 noblesdet:predet
19hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 noblesnmod:poss
20noblesnobleNOUNNumber=Plur16 kingconj
21,,PUNCT_27 reachedpunct
22andandCCONJ_27 reachedcc
23ininADP_25 ordercase
24thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem25 orderdet
25orderorderNOUNNumber=Sing27 reachedobl
26wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs27 reachednsubj
27reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 cameconj
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 mountaindet
29fatalfatalADJDegree=Pos30 mountainamod
30mountainmountainNOUNNumber=Sing27 reachedobj
31,,PUNCT_34 onepunct
32whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel34 onensubj
33wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin34 onecop
34oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card30 mountainappos
35ofofADP_38 chaincase
36aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art38 chaindet
37loftyloftyADJDegree=Pos38 chainamod
38chainchainNOUNNumber=Sing34 onenmod
39borderingborderVERBVerbForm=Ger38 chainacl
40thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 seadet
41seaseaNOUNNumber=Sing39 borderingobj
42..PUNCT_2 followedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1followpastIbiervn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2comepastmea great processionvn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location procession=Theme
3headparticiplea great procession not said hereby the king and king's noblesvn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4reachpastwethe fatal mountainthis ordervn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme
5is apastthe fatal mountainoneof a lofty chaintree rules
6bordergerunda lofty chain not said herethe seavn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Co-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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