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title: The case, with me inside it, was accordingly placed on a horse, and… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: The case, with me inside it, was accordingly placed on a horse, and the executioner, accompanied by another man, rode into the country until they found a spot suitable for the purpose. Who acts: executioner, heads. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7, wi
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 97

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The case, with me inside it, was accordingly placed on a horse, and the executioner, accompanied by another man, rode into the country until they found a spot suitable for the purpose.

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**Who acts:** executioner, heads · **What happens:** place, accompany, ride, find · **To what, where:** case, executioner, country, spot

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (executioner, heads), 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:pg128:7:97
# text = The case, with me inside it, was accordingly placed on a horse, and the executioner, accompanied by another man, rode into the country until they found a spot suitable for the purpose.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	appos	_	_
6	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	executioner	executioner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
25	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	suitable	suitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past · passive |  | the case |  |  |  | on a horse; accordingly *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on horse=Destination |
| 2 | **accompany** | participle |  | the executioner *not said here* |  |  |  | by another man | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by man=Destination |
| 3 | **ride** | past | the executioner |  |  | the country |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into country=Trajectory |
| 4 | **find** | past | heads *= head* | a spot |  |  |  | suitable *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Topic |

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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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