The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 11

A few days later, Ali Cogia mounted the camel that he had laden with merchandise, joined the caravan, and arrived in due time at Mecca.

Who acts: Ali · What happens: mount, lade, join, arrive · To what, where: camel, caravan, Mecca

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ali), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 days	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 later	obl:unmarked
4	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 mounted	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 later	punct
6	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 mounted	nsubj
7	Cogia	Cogia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ali	flat
8	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 camel	det
10	camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mounted	obj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 laden	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 laden	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 laden	aux
14	laden	lade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 mounted	advcl
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 merchandise	case
16	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 laden	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 joined	punct
18	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mounted	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 caravan	det
20	caravan	caravan	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 joined	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 arrived	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 arrived	cc
23	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mounted	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 time	case
25	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 time	amod
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 arrived	obl
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 Mecca	case
28	Mecca	Mecca	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 arrived	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 mounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mount	past	Ali	the camel			late property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camel=Patient
2	lade	past · perfect	Ali				with merchandise	tree rules
3	join	past	Ali not said here	the caravan				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caravan=Patient
4	arrive	past	Ali not said here		Mecca	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «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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