Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 12
He immediately procured a splendid equipage, dressed his servants in rich embroidery, and covered his horses with golden caparisons.
Who acts: Almamoulin · What happens: procure, dress, cover · To what, where: splendid equipage, servants, horses
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almamoulin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Almamoulin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 procured | nsubj |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 procured | advmod |
| 3 | procured | procure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 equipage | det |
| 5 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 equipage | amod |
| 6 | equipage | equipage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 procured | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dressed | punct |
| 8 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 procured | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 servants | nmod:poss |
| 10 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dressed | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 embroidery | case |
| 12 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 embroidery | amod |
| 13 | embroidery | embroidery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dressed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 covered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 covered | cc |
| 16 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 procured | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 horses | nmod:poss |
| 18 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 covered | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 caparisons | case |
| 20 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 caparisons | amod |
| 21 | caparisons | caparison | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 covered | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 procured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | procure | past | Almamoulin | a splendid equipage | immediately property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent equipage=Theme | |||
| 2 | dress | past | Almamoulin not said here | Almamoulin's servants | in rich embroidery | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Patient | |||
| 3 | cover | past | Almamoulin not said here | Almamoulin's horses | with golden caparisons | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Destination with caparison=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: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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