--- title: A thousand men in cloth of gold, mounted upon richly caparisoned ele… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: A thousand men in cloth of gold, mounted upon richly caparisoned elephants, go before him, and as the procession moves onward the officer who guides his elephant cries aloud, `Behold the mighty monarch, the powerful and valiant Sultan of the Indies, whose palace is covered with a hundred thousand ru --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/18/29/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/18/) / 29 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 29 A thousand men in cloth of gold, mounted upon richly caparisoned elephants, go before him, and as the procession moves onward the officer who guides his elephant cries aloud, \`Behold the mighty monarch, the powerful and valiant Sultan of the Indies, whose palace is covered with a hundred thousand rubies, who possesses twenty thousand diamond crowns. **Who acts:** thousand men, procession, officer, mighty monarch · **What happens:** mount, caparison, go, move, guide, cry · **To what, where:** elephant, mighty monarch, palace, thousand diamond crowns This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thousand men, procession, officer, mighty monarch), 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:pg128:18:29 # text = A thousand men in cloth of gold, mounted upon richly caparisoned elephants, go before him, and as the procession moves onward the officer who guides his elephant cries aloud, `Behold the mighty monarch, the powerful and valiant Sultan of the Indies, whose palace is covered with a hundred thousand rubies, who possesses twenty thousand diamond crowns. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 mounted mount VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 10 upon upon ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 richly richly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 caparisoned caparison VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 13 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 16 before before ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 procession procession NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 23 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 24 onward onward ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 officer officer NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 27 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 guides guide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 elephant elephant NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 cries cry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 32 aloud aloud ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 ` ` PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 Behold behold INTJ UH _ 38 discourse _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 monarch monarch NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 41 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 valiant valiant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 conj _ _ 44 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 Indies Indy PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 49 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 50 nmod:poss _ _ 50 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj:pass _ _ 51 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 aux:pass _ _ 52 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 acl _ _ 53 with with ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 54 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 56 compound _ _ 56 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 57 nummod _ _ 57 rubies ruby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 59 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 60 nsubj _ _ 60 possesses possess VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 61 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 62 compound _ _ 62 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 64 nummod _ _ 63 diamond diamond NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 compound _ _ 64 crowns crown NOUN NNS Number=Plur 60 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 65 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mount** | participle | a thousand men in cloth of gold | | | | | upon caparisoned elephants | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon elephant=Destination | | 2 | **caparison** | participle | | | | | | richly *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | infinitive | | | | | before Commander | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before he=Location | | 4 | **move** | present | the procession | | | | | onward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **guide** | present | the officer | Commander's elephant | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme | | 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | the officer | the mighty monarch the powerful Sultan of the Indies | | | | aloud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **cover** | present · passive | | palace | | | | with thousand rubies | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with ruby=Theme | | 8 | **possess** | present | the mighty monarch the powerful Sultan of the Indies | thousand diamond crowns | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot crown=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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/18/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/18/30/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/18/)