The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 97

The case, with me inside it, was accordingly placed on a horse, and the executioner, accompanied by another man, rode into the country until they found a spot suitable for the purpose.

Who acts: executioner, heads · What happens: place, accompany, ride, find · To what, where: case, executioner, country, spot

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (executioner, heads), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 case	det
2	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 placed	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 me	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 case	appos
6	inside	inside	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 me	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 case	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 placed	aux:pass
10	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	11 placed	advmod
11	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 horse	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 horse	det
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 placed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 rode	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 rode	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 executioner	det
18	executioner	executioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rode	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 accompanied	punct
20	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 executioner	acl
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 man	case
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	23 man	det
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 accompanied	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 executioner	punct
25	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 placed	conj
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 country	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 country	det
28	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 rode	obl
29	until	until	SCONJ	_	31 found	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 found	nsubj
31	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 rode	advcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 spot	det
33	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 found	obj
34	suitable	suitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 found	xcomp
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 purpose	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 purpose	det
37	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 suitable	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	place	past · passive		the case		on a horse; accordingly property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on horse=Destination
2	accompany	participle		the executioner not said here		by another man	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by man=Destination
3	ride	past	the executioner		the country		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into country=Trajectory
4	find	past	heads = head	a spot		suitable property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Topic

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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