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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 71

Upon this he provided me with a bow and arrows, and mounting me with him upon his own elephant took the way to a vast forest which lay far from the town.

Who acts: skill, mounting, vast forest · What happens: provide, mount, take, lie · To what, where: me, way, vast forest

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 (skill, mounting, vast forest), 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

caseoblnsubjobjcasedetoblccconjpunctcccsubjobjcaseoblcasenmod:possamodoblconjdetobjcasedetcompoundoblnsubjacl:relcladvmodcasedetoblpunctrootUponADPthisPRONhePRONprovidedVERBmePRONwithADPaDETbowNOUNandCCONJarrowsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJmountingVERBmePRONwithADPhimPRONuponADPhisPRONownADJelephantNOUNtookVERBtheDETwayNOUNtoADPaDETvastNOUNforestNOUNwhichPRONlayVERBfarADVfromADPtheDETtownNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1UponuponADP_2 thiscase
2thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem4 providedobl
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 providednsubj
4providedprovideVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs4 providedobj
6withwithADP_8 bowcase
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art8 bowdet
8bowbowNOUNNumber=Sing4 providedobl
9andandCCONJ_10 arrowscc
10arrowsarrowNOUNNumber=Plur8 bowconj
11,,PUNCT_21 tookpunct
12andandCCONJ_21 tookcc
13mountingmountVERBVerbForm=Ger21 tookcsubj
14meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs13 mountingobj
15withwithADP_16 himcase
16himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 mountingobl
17uponuponADP_20 elephantcase
18hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 elephantnmod:poss
19ownownADJDegree=Pos20 elephantamod
20elephantelephantNOUNNumber=Sing13 mountingobl
21tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 providedconj
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 waydet
23waywayNOUNNumber=Sing21 tookobj
24totoADP_27 forestcase
25aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art27 forestdet
26vastvastNOUNNumber=Sing27 forestcompound
27forestforestNOUNNumber=Sing21 tookobl
28whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel29 laynsubj
29laylieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 forestacl:relcl
30farfarADVDegree=Pos29 layadvmod
31fromfromADP_33 towncase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 towndet
33towntownNOUNNumber=Sing30 farobl
34..PUNCT_4 providedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1providepastskillmeupon this; with a bow and arrowsvn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with bow=Theme
2mountgerundmewith skill; upon skill's own elephantvn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent i=Patient with he=Instrument
3takepastmountingthe waya vast forestvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent way=Theme to forest=Destination
4liepasta vast forestfar propertyvn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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