The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 73

Saouy, accompanied by twenty of his own slaves, went to the prison to fetch Noureddin, whom he mounted on a wretched horse without a saddle.

Who acts: Saouy, Noureddin · What happens: accompany, go, fetch, mount · To what, where: Saouy, prison, Noureddin

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saouy, Noureddin), 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	Saouy	Saouy	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 went	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Saouy	punct
3	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Saouy	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 twenty	case
5	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 accompanied	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 slaves	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 slaves	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 slaves	amod
9	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 twenty	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Saouy	punct
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 prison	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 prison	det
14	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 fetch	mark
16	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 went	advcl
17	Noureddin	Noureddin	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 fetch	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 mounted	punct
19	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 mounted	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 mounted	nsubj
21	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Noureddin	acl:relcl
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 horse	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 horse	det
24	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 horse	amod
25	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mounted	obl
26	without	without	ADP	_	28 saddle	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 saddle	det
28	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fetch	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	accompany	participle		Saouy not said here		by twenty of Saouy's own slaves	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by twenty=Destination
2	go	past	Saouy		the prison		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to prison=Initial_Location
3	fetch	to-infinitive	Saouy not said here	Noureddin		without a saddle	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noureddin=Theme
4	mount	past	Noureddin	Noureddin		on a wretched horse	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent whom=Theme on horse=Destination

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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