The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 62

Before we left I exchanged one of my diamonds for much goodly merchandise by which I profited greatly on our homeward way.

Who acts: we, I · What happens: leave, exchange, profit · To what, where: one, homeward way

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 (we, 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	3 left	mark
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 left	nsubj
3	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 exchanged	nsubj
5	exchanged	exchange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 left	ccomp
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 exchanged	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 diamonds	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 diamonds	nmod:poss
9	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 merchandise	case
11	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 merchandise	amod
12	goodly	goodly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 merchandise	amod
13	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 diamonds	nmod
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 profited	obl
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 profited	nsubj
17	profited	profit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 merchandise	acl:relcl
18	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	17 profited	advmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	22 way	case
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 way	nmod:poss
21	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 way	compound
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 profited	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	past	we				tree rules
2	exchange	past	I	one of my diamonds for much goodly merchandise			vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	profit	past	I		our homeward way	by much goodly merchandise; greatly property	vn benefit-72.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Beneficiary by which=Causer

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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