The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 28

On his elephant's neck sits an officer, his golden lance in his hand, and behind him stands another bearing a pillar of gold, at the top of which is an emerald as long as my hand.

Who acts: another, top · What happens: sit, stand, bear, be · To what, where: officer, neck, pillar, top

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 (another, top), 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	On	on	ADP	_	5 neck	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 elephant	nmod:poss
3	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 neck	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 elephant	case
5	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sits	obl
6	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 officer	det
8	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sits	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lance	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 lance	nmod:poss
11	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 lance	amod
12	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sits	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hand	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 hand	nmod:poss
15	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lance	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stands	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 stands	cc
18	behind	behind	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stands	obl
20	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sits	conj
21	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	22 bearing	nsubj
22	bearing	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 stands	ccomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pillar	det
24	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bearing	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 gold	case
26	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pillar	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 top	punct
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 top	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 top	det
30	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bearing	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	35 emerald	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 emerald	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 emerald	cop
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 emerald	det
35	emerald	emerald	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 top	nmod
36	as	as	ADV	_	37 long	advmod
37	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 top	advmod
38	as	as	ADP	_	40 hand	case
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 hand	nmod:poss
40	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 long	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	present		a officer	Commander's elephant's neck	Commander's golden lance in Commander's hand obl	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent officer=Theme on neck=Location
2	stand	present				behind Commander	vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	bear	gerund	another	a pillar of gold	the top		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pillar=Patient
4	is	present	the top			of a emerald	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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