The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 70

So, procuring a horse, they mounted me upon it, and we set out, followed by several strong men carrying my raft just as it was upon their shoulders.

Who acts: eyes, we, several strong men, horse · What happens: procure, mount, set out, follow, carry, be · To what, where: horse, me, raft

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, we, several strong men, horse), 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	So	so	ADV	_	8 mounted	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	procuring	procure	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 mounted	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 procuring	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 procuring	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 mounted	nsubj
8	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 mounted	obj
10	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 mounted	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 set	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 set	cc
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 set	nsubj
15	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mounted	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 set	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 followed	punct
18	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 set	parataxis
19	by	by	ADP	_	22 men	case
20	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 men	amod
21	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 men	amod
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 followed	obl:agent
23	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 men	acl
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 raft	nmod:poss
25	raft	raft	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 carrying	obj
26	just	just	ADV	_	32 shoulders	advmod
27	as	as	ADP	_	32 shoulders	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 shoulders	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 shoulders	cop
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	32 shoulders	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 shoulders	nmod:poss
32	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 carrying	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 mounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	procure	gerund	eyes = eye not said here	a horse		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
2	mount	past	eyes = eye	me	upon horse	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme upon it=Destination
3	set out	past	we			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	follow	participle				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	carry	gerund	several strong men not said here	my raft		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raft=Theme
6	is	past	horse		as eyes's shoulders	tree rules

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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