The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 70

So once more providing myself with the rarest and choicest merchandise of Bagdad, I conveyed it to Balsora, and set sail with other merchants of my acquaintance for distant lands.

Who acts: I, my · What happens: provide, convey, acquaint · To what, where: myself, life, Balsora

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, my), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 providing	advmod
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 more	advmod
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 providing	advmod
4	providing	provide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 conveyed	advcl
5	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 providing	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	11 merchandise	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 merchandise	det
8	rarest	rare	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 merchandise	amod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 choicest	cc
10	choicest	choice	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 rarest	conj
11	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 providing	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Bagdad	case
13	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 merchandise	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 providing	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 conveyed	nsubj
16	conveyed	convey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 conveyed	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 Balsora	case
19	Balsora	Balsora	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 conveyed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sail	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 sail	cc
22	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sail	amod
23	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 conveyed	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 merchants	case
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 merchants	amod
26	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sail	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 acquaintance	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 acquaintance	nmod:poss
29	acquaintance	acquaintance	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 merchants	nmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 lands	case
31	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 lands	amod
32	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 acquaintance	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 conveyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	provide	gerund	I not said here	myself		with the rarest merchandise of Bagdad	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent myself=Recipient with merchandise=Theme
2	convey	past	I	life	Balsora	set sail with other merchants of my acquaintance for distant lands obl	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to balsora=Recipient
3	acquaint		my			for distant lands	nom acquaintance «cognition transitive»: poss=agent for=obl

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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