The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 69

This merchandise is his, but I have resolved to dispose of it for the benefit of his family if I should ever chance to meet with them."

Who acts: I · What happens: be, resolve, dispose, chance, meet · To what, where: water, merchandise

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), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 merchandise	det
2	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 his	cop
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 merchandise	nmod:poss
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 resolved	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 resolved	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 resolved	nsubj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 resolved	aux
9	resolved	resolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 merchandise	acl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 dispose	mark
11	dispose	dispose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 resolved	xcomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dispose	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 benefit	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 benefit	det
16	benefit	benefit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dispose	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 family	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 family	nmod:poss
19	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 benefit	nmod
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 chance	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 chance	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 chance	aux
23	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 chance	advmod
24	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dispose	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 meet	mark
26	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 chance	acl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 meet	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 merchandise	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 merchandise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		water			tree rules
2	resolve	present · perfect	I	water's merchandise not said here			tree rules
3	dispose	to-infinitive	I not said here			of merchandise; for the benefit of water's family	vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent
4	chance a condition, not said to happen	should	I		ever		tree rules
5	meet	to-infinitive	I not said here			with people	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent

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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