The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 84

I then took leave of him, and exchanging my merchandise for sandal and aloes wood, camphor, nutmegs, cloves, pepper, and ginger, I embarked upon the same vessel and traded so successfully upon our homeward voyage that I arrived in Balsora with about one hundred thousand sequins.

Who acts: I, homeward voyage, our · What happens: take, leave, exchange, embark, trade, arrive · To what, where: merchandise, Balsora

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, homeward voyage, our), 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	3 took	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	ccomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 leave	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 embarked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 embarked	cc
9	exchanging	exchange	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 embarked	advcl
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 merchandise	nmod:poss
11	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 exchanging	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 sandal	case
13	sandal	sandal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 exchanging	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 aloes	cc
15	aloes	aloe	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sandal	conj
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 aloes	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 camphor	punct
18	camphor	camphor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wood	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 nutmegs	punct
20	nutmegs	nutmeg	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wood	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cloves	punct
22	cloves	clove	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 wood	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pepper	punct
24	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wood	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ginger	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ginger	cc
27	ginger	ginger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wood	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 exchanging	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 embarked	nsubj
30	embarked	embark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 vessel	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 vessel	det
33	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 vessel	amod
34	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 embarked	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 traded	cc
36	traded	trade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 successfully	advmod
38	successfully	successfully	ADV	_	36 traded	advmod
39	upon	upon	ADP	_	42 voyage	case
40	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 voyage	nmod:poss
41	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 voyage	compound
42	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 traded	obl
43	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 arrived	nsubj
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 arrived	nsubj
45	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 voyage	acl:relcl
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 Balsora	case
47	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 arrived	obl
48	with	with	ADP	_	53 sequins	case
49	about	about	ADV	_	52 thousand	advmod
50	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	51 hundred	compound
51	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 thousand	compound
52	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 sequins	nummod
53	sequins	sequin	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 arrived	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	I			then		vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
2	leave	infinitive	I not said here				of king	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of he=Initial_Location
3	exchange	gerund	I not said here	my merchandise			for sandal and aloes	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent merchandise=Theme for sandal=Co-Theme
4	embark	past	I				upon the same vessel	tree rules
5	trade	past	I not said here				upon our homeward voyage; successfully property	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	arrive	past	our homeward voyage		Balsora		with thousand sequins	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	voyage		our					nom voyage «act transitive»: poss=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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