The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 16, sentence 82

I wished to be able to call at whatever port I chose, taking my own time; but as I did not intend carrying enough goods for a full cargo, I invited several merchants of different nations to join me.

Who acts: I, several merchants · What happens: wish, be, call, choose, take, not intend · To what, where: port, enough goods, several merchants, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, several merchants), 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 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 able	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 able	cop
5	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wished	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 call	mark
7	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 able	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 port	case
9	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 port	nsubj
10	port	port	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	obl
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 chose	nsubj
12	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 port	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 taking	punct
14	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 chose	advcl
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 time	nmod:poss
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 time	amod
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 taking	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 intend	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 intend	cc
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 intend	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 intend	nsubj
22	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 intend	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 intend	advmod
24	intend	intend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wished	advcl
25	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 intend	xcomp
26	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 goods	amod
27	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	25 carrying	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 cargo	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 cargo	det
30	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 cargo	amod
31	cargo	cargo	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carrying	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 invited	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 invited	nsubj
34	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wished	advcl
35	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 merchants	amod
36	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 invited	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 nations	case
38	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 nations	amod
39	nations	nation	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 merchants	nmod
40	to	to	PART	_	41 join	mark
41	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 invited	xcomp
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 join	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wish	past	I				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here			able property	tree rules
3	call	to-infinitive	I not said here			at port	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at port=Stimulus
4	choose	past	I	port not said here			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent port=Theme
5	take	gerund	I not said here		time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	not intend	past · do-support	I				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	carry not said to happen	gerund	I not said here	enough goods		for a full cargo	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme
8	invite	past	I	several merchants of different nations			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent merchant=Recipient clause=Topic
9	join not said to happen	to-infinitive	several merchants of different nations not said here	me			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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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