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title: He immediately procured a splendid equipage, dressed his servants in… — Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth · tree and pragmatics
description: He immediately procured a splendid equipage, dressed his servants in rich embroidery, and covered his horses with golden caparisons. Who acts: Almamoulin. A sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almamoulin., with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Almamoulin., sentence 12

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He immediately procured a splendid equipage, dressed his servants in rich embroidery, and covered his horses with golden caparisons.

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**Who acts:** Almamoulin · **What happens:** procure, dress, cover · **To what, where:** splendid equipage, servants, horses

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This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Almamoulin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Almamoulin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg62868:18:12
# text = He immediately procured a splendid equipage, dressed his servants in rich embroidery, and covered his horses with golden caparisons.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	procured	procure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	equipage	equipage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	dressed	dress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	embroidery	embroidery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	caparisons	caparison	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **procure** | past | Almamoulin | a splendid equipage |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent equipage=Theme |
| 2 | **dress** | past | Almamoulin *not said here* | Almamoulin's servants |  |  |  | in rich embroidery | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Patient |
| 3 | **cover** | past | Almamoulin *not said here* |  | Almamoulin's horses |  |  | with golden caparisons | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Destination with caparison=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:** «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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