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title: So, procuring a horse, they mounted me upon it, and we set out, foll… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: So, procuring a horse, they mounted me upon it, and we set out, followed by several strong men carrying my raft just as it was upon their shoulders. Who acts: eyes, we, several strong men, horse. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17, with its dependency 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 70

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So, procuring a horse, they mounted me upon it, and we set out, followed by several strong men carrying my raft just as it was upon their shoulders.

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**Who acts:** eyes, we, several strong men, horse · **What happens:** procure, mount, set out, follow, carry, be · **To what, where:** horse, me, raft

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, we, several strong men, horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg128:17:70
# text = So, procuring a horse, they mounted me upon it, and we set out, followed by several strong men carrying my raft just as it was upon their shoulders.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	procuring	procure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	parataxis	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl:agent	_	_
23	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	raft	raft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	just	just	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **procure** | gerund | eyes *= eye* *not said here* | a horse |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 2 | **mount** | past | eyes *= eye* | me |  |  |  | upon horse | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme upon it=Destination |
| 3 | **set out** | past | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **carry** | gerund | several strong men *not said here* | my raft |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raft=Theme |
| 6 | **is** | past | horse |  |  |  |  | as eyes's shoulders | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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