The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 25

Accordingly, the chief of police at once set out for the palace, taking with him the tailor, the doctor, the purveyor, and the merchant, who bore the dead hunchback on their shoulders.

Who acts: merchant · What happens: set out, take, bear · To what, where: chief, tailor, dead hunchback, shoulders

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant), 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	Accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	9 set	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Accordingly	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chief	det
4	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 set	nsubj:pass
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 police	case
6	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 chief	nmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 set	obl
9	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 set	compound:prt
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 palace	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 palace	det
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 set	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 taking	punct
15	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 set	advcl
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 taking	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tailor	det
19	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 taking	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 doctor	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 doctor	det
22	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tailor	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 purveyor	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 purveyor	det
25	purveyor	purveyor	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tailor	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 merchant	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 merchant	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 merchant	det
29	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 set	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bore	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 bore	nsubj
32	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 merchant	acl:relcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 hunchback	det
34	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 hunchback	amod
35	hunchback	hunchback	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bore	obj
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 shoulders	case
37	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 shoulders	nmod:poss
38	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 bore	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	set out	participle · passive		the chief of police			for the palace; the merchant obl; accordingly property	tree rules
2	take	gerund			the tailor and the purveyor		with chief	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument tailor=Destination
3	bear	past	the merchant	the dead hunchback		police's shoulders		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunchback=Patient

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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