The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 48

Then I shall put on my most gorgeous robes, and mounted on a horse with a saddle of fine gold, and its trappings blazing with diamonds, followed by a train of slaves, I shall present myself at the house of the grand-vizir, the people casting down their eyes and bowing low as I pass along.

Who acts: I, trappings, people · What happens: put, mount, blaze, follow, present, cast down · To what, where: trappings, gorgeous robes, myself, house, eyes

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 (I, trappings, people), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 put	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 put	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux
4	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	9 robes	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 robes	nmod:poss
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 gorgeous	advmod
8	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 robes	amod
9	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mounted	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mounted	cc
12	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 robes	acl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 horse	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 horse	det
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mounted	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 saddle	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 saddle	det
18	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 mounted	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 gold	case
20	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 gold	amod
21	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saddle	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 trappings	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 trappings	cc
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 trappings	nmod:poss
25	trappings	trapping	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	obl
26	blazing	blaze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 trappings	acl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 diamonds	case
28	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 blazing	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 followed	punct
30	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 trappings	acl
31	by	by	ADP	_	33 train	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 train	det
33	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 followed	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 slaves	case
35	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 train	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 present	punct
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 present	nsubj
38	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 present	aux
39	present	present	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 put	conj
40	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 present	obj
41	at	at	ADP	_	43 house	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 house	det
43	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 present	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	48 vizir	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 vizir	det
46	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 vizir	amod
47	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 grand	punct
48	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 house	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 people	punct
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 people	det
51	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 vizir	appos
52	casting	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	51 people	acl
53	down	down	ADP	_	52 casting	compound:prt
54	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 eyes	nmod:poss
55	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 casting	obj
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 bowing	cc
57	bowing	bow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	52 casting	conj
58	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	57 bowing	advmod
59	as	as	SCONJ	_	61 pass	mark
60	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	61 pass	nsubj
61	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 low	advcl
62	along	along	ADV	_	61 pass	advmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	shall	I	gold's trappings	my gorgeous robes	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on robe=Destination
2	mount	participle		my gorgeous robes not said here			on a horse; with a saddle of fine gold	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with saddle=Instrument
3	blaze	gerund	gold's trappings not said here				with diamonds	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with diamond=Theme
4	follow	participle		gold's trappings not said here			by a train of slaves	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by train=Location
5	present	shall	I	myself	the house of the grand vizir			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme
6	cast down	gerund	the people not said here	people's eyes				vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Product
7	bow	gerund	the people not said here				low property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	pass along	present	I				along property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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