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title: Then I shall put on my most gorgeous robes, and mounted on a horse w… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: Then I shall put on my most gorgeous robes, and mounted on a horse with a saddle of fine gold, and its trappings blazing with diamonds, followed by a train of slaves, I shall present myself at the house of the grand-vizir, the people casting down their eyes and bowing low as I pass along. Who acts: 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 48

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Then I shall put on my most gorgeous robes, and mounted on a horse with a saddle of fine gold, and its trappings blazing with diamonds, followed by a train of slaves, I shall present myself at the house of the grand-vizir, the people casting down their eyes and bowing low as I pass along.

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**Who acts:** I, trappings, people · **What happens:** put, mount, blaze, follow, present, cast down · **To what, where:** trappings, gorgeous robes, myself, house, eyes

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, trappings, people), 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:pg128:20:48
# text = Then I shall put on my most gorgeous robes, and mounted on a horse with a saddle of fine gold, and its trappings blazing with diamonds, followed by a train of slaves, I shall present myself at the house of the grand-vizir, the people casting down their eyes and bowing low as I pass along.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
8	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	trappings	trapping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
26	blazing	blaze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
40	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	39	obj	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
46	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	vizir	vizir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	appos	_	_
52	casting	cast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	51	acl	_	_
53	down	down	ADP	RP	_	52	compound:prt	_	_
54	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obj	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	bowing	bow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	52	conj	_	_
58	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	57	advmod	_	_
59	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	61	mark	_	_
60	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
61	pass	pass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	advcl	_	_
62	along	along	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | shall | I | gold's trappings |  | my gorgeous robes | then |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on robe=Destination |
| 2 | **mount** | participle |  | my gorgeous robes *not said here* |  |  |  | on a horse; with a saddle of fine gold | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with saddle=Instrument |
| 3 | **blaze** | gerund | gold's trappings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with diamonds | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with diamond=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** | participle |  | gold's trappings *not said here* |  |  |  | by a train of slaves | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by train=Location |
| 5 | **present** | shall | I | myself |  | the house of the grand vizir |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme |
| 6 | **cast down** | gerund | the people *not said here* | people's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Product |
| 7 | **bow** | gerund | the people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | low *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **pass along** | present | I |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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