The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 9

I procured, therefore, such goods as were suitable for the places I intended to visit, and embarked for the second time in a good ship with other merchants whom I knew to be honourable men.

Who acts: I · What happens: procure, be, intend, visit, embark, know · To what, where: such goods, places, good ship, other merchants, honourable men

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), 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 procured	nsubj
2	procured	procure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 therefore	punct
4	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	2 procured	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 goods	punct
6	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 goods	amod
7	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 procured	obl
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 suitable	mark
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 suitable	cop
10	suitable	suitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 procured	advcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 places	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 places	det
13	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 suitable	obl
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 intended	nsubj
15	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 places	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 visit	mark
17	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 intended	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 embarked	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 embarked	cc
20	embarked	embark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 procured	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	24 time	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 time	det
23	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 time	amod
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 embarked	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 ship	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 ship	det
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ship	amod
28	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 embarked	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 merchants	case
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 merchants	amod
31	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 embarked	obl
32	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 knew	obj
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 knew	nsubj
34	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 merchants	acl:relcl
35	to	to	PART	_	38 men	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 men	cop
37	honourable	honourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 men	amod
38	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 knew	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 procured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	procure	past	I	such goods			therefore property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	I not said here				for the places; suitable property	tree rules
3	intend	past	I	the places not said here				tree rules
4	visit not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	embark	participle	I not said here		a good ship	time	with other merchants	tree rules
6	know	past	I	other merchants				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
7	is a	to-infinitive		honourable men				tree rules

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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