--- title: I followed it, and after me came a great procession, headed by the k… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: I followed it, and after me came a great procession, headed by the king and all his nobles, and in this order we reached the fatal mountain, which was one of a lofty chain bordering the sea. Who acts: I, me, we, fatal mountain. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, me, we, fatal mountain), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg128:16:50 # text = I followed it, and after me came a great procession, headed by the king and all his nobles, and in this order we reached the fatal mountain, which was one of a lofty chain bordering the sea. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 after after SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 procession procession NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 headed head VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 20 det:predet _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 nobles noble NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 det _ _ 25 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 26 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 fatal fatal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 appos _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 lofty lofty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 39 bordering border VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 acl _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | past | I | bier | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **come** | past | me | a great procession | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location procession=Theme | | 3 | **head** | participle | | a great procession *not said here* | | | | by the king and king's nobles | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **reach** | past | we | the fatal mountain | | this order | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mountain=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | past | the fatal mountain | one | | | | of a lofty chain | tree rules | | 6 | **border** | gerund | a lofty chain *not said here* | the sea | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Co-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. - ← previous: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/16/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/16/51/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/16/)