The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 50

I found that each merchant chose a particular nest, and took his chance of what he might find in it.

Who acts: I, merchant, way · What happens: find, choose, take, chance · To what, where: particular nest, chance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, merchant, way), 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 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 chose	mark
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 merchant	det
5	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chose	nsubj
6	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 nest	det
8	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nest	amod
9	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chose	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 took	cc
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 chance	nmod:poss
14	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 what	case
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 chance	nmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 find	nsubj
18	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 find	aux
19	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 what	acl:relcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 find	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	find	past	I			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	choose	past	each merchant	a particular nest		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme
3	take	past	I not said here	way's chance		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Theme
4	find	might	way		chance	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	chance		way			nom chance «state intransitive»: 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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