The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 41

I sold all my household goods by public auction, and joined a company of merchants who traded by sea, embarking with them at Balsora in a ship which we had fitted out between us.

Who acts: I, merchants · What happens: sell, join, trade, embark, fit out · To what, where: household goods, company, Balsora, ship

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, merchants), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 sold	nsubj
2	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 goods	det:predet
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 goods	nmod:poss
5	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goods	compound
6	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 sold	obj
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 auction	case
8	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 auction	amod
9	auction	auction	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sold	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 joined	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 joined	cc
12	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sold	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 company	det
14	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 joined	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 merchants	case
16	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 company	nmod
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 traded	nsubj
18	traded	trade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 merchants	acl:relcl
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 sea	case
20	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 traded	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 embarking	punct
22	embarking	embark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 joined	advcl
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 embarking	obl
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 Balsora	case
26	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 embarking	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 ship	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 ship	det
29	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 embarking	obl
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 fitted	nsubj:pass
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 fitted	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 fitted	aux
33	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 ship	acl:relcl
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 fitted	compound:prt
35	between	between	ADP	_	36 us	case
36	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 fitted	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sell	past	I	my household goods		by public auction	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme
2	join	past	I not said here	a company of merchants			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Patient
3	trade	past	merchants			by sea	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	embark	gerund	I not said here		Balsora	with merchants = merchant; in a ship	tree rules
5	fit out	past · perfect · passive		a ship		between us	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme between we=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.

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