The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 27

When he goes abroad his throne is prepared upon the back of an elephant, and on either side of him ride his ministers, his favourites, and courtiers.

Who acts: Commander · What happens: go, prepare, ride · To what, where: throne, ministers, side

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Commander), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 goes	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 prepared	advcl
4	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	3 goes	advmod
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 throne	nmod:poss
6	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 prepared	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 prepared	aux:pass
8	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 back	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 back	det
11	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 prepared	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 elephant	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 elephant	det
14	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 back	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ride	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ride	cc
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 side	case
18	either	either	DET	PronType=Ind	19 side	det
19	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ride	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 side	nmod
22	ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 prepared	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 ministers	nmod:poss
24	ministers	minister	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 ride	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 favourites	punct
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 favourites	nmod:poss
27	favourites	favourite	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 ministers	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 courtiers	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 courtiers	cc
30	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 ride	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present	Commander			abroad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	prepare	present · passive		Commander's throne		upon the back of a elephant	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	ride	present		Commander's ministers and Commander's favourites	either side of Commander	courtiers obl	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minister=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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