John rides a horse recently bought by his aunt around an orchard twenty kilometers from my home town.

[Uncanny]

Does this sentence sound idiomatic:

John rides a horse recently bought by his aunt around an orchard twenty kilometers (away) from my home town.

How can it be rephrased? Is it at all acceptable? Even if marginally? If not, what would be its acceptable version?

 

[Rover_KE]

Where did you find that sentence, Uncanny?

If you wrote it yourself, why? What do you want it to mean?

 

[Tarheel]

Abe: John is riding a horse recently bought by his aunt --
Bob: Wait! Did you say his aunt bought the horse?
Abe: Yes.
Bob: Then it's her horse, right?
Abe: Yeah, I guess.
Bob: Did she give him permission to ride the horse?
Abe: Probably.
Bob: So she's okay with him riding the horse, right?
Abe: Look! Forget about his aunt. She already forgot she bought the horse. In fact, John convinced her that it's his horse.
Bob: That seems unlikely, but okay.

Whoever wrote that tried to cram too much information into one sentence, and it confused Bob, which is why he had so many questions.

 

[tedmc]

I think it reads better with commas:
John rides a horse recently, bought by his aunt, around an orchard twenty kilometers (away) from my hometown.

 

[jutfrank]

Does this sentence sound idiomatic:

John rides a horse recently bought by his aunt around an orchard twenty kilometers (away) from my home town.

Idiomatic? What do you mean?

How can it be rephrased?

There are many ways to rephrase it. What kind of rephrase are you looking for?

Is it at all acceptable? Even if marginally? If not, what would be its acceptable version?

Acceptable for what?

Please answer the questions in post #2.

 

[Tarheel]

@Uncanny
My guess is that you want to know if anybody would really say that. Since you invented the sentence, maybe you know what context it would make sense in.

I suggest that to make sense out of that that you break it into several shorter sentences. When you do that please solve the mystery of whose horse it is.

 

[Uncanny]

Where did you find that sentence, Uncanny?

If you wrote it yourself, why? What do you want it to mean?

I wrote it to compare with
'John rides a recently bought by his aunt horse around an orchard twenty kilometers (away) from my home town.'

 

[emsr2d2]

I wrote it to compare with 'John rides a recently bought by his aunt horse around an orchard twenty kilometers (away) from my home town.'

Well, your version in post #1 is an improvement on that one. The part "a recently bought by his aunt horse" is dreadful.

 

[Tarheel]

I wrote it to compare with
'John rides a recently bought by his aunt horse around an orchard twenty kilometers (away) from my home town.'

Is there any context that can somehow make that make sense?