--- title: In a quarter of an hour the Indian was seen returning, bearing in hi… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: In a quarter of an hour the Indian was seen returning, bearing in his hand the palm, and, guiding his horse to the foot of the throne, he dismounted, and laid the leaf before the king. Who acts: Indian, king. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37, with it --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/37/58/) [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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/37/) / 58 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 58 In a quarter of an hour the Indian was seen returning, bearing in his hand the palm, and, guiding his horse to the foot of the throne, he dismounted, and laid the leaf before the king. **Who acts:** Indian, king · **What happens:** see, return, bear, guide, dismount, lay · **To what, where:** Indian, quarter, hand, horse, foot, leaf This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Indian, king), 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:pg128:37:58 # text = In a quarter of an hour the Indian was seen returning, bearing in his hand the palm, and, guiding his horse to the foot of the throne, he dismounted, and laid the leaf before the king. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 quarter quarter NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 returning return VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 bearing bear VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 palm palm NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 guiding guide VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 conj _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 throne throne NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 dismounted dismount VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 before before ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past · passive | | the Indian | | a quarter of a hour | | | tree rules | | 2 | **return** | gerund | the Indian *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **bear** | gerund | the Indian *not said here* | | | king's hand the palm | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **guide** | gerund | the Indian *not said here* | king's horse | | the foot of the throne | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to foot=Destination | | 5 | **dismount** | past | king | | | | | | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **lay** | past | king *not said here* | the leaf | | | before the king | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme before king=Destination | 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 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/37/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/37/59/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/37/)