The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 30

Here I exchanged my nuts for pepper and good aloes wood, and went a-fishing for pearls with some of the other merchants, and my divers were so lucky that very soon I had an immense number, and those very large and perfect.

Who acts: I, divers · What happens: exchange, go, be, have · To what, where: nuts, fishing, immense number

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, divers), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 exchanged	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 exchanged	nsubj
3	exchanged	exchange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nuts	nmod:poss
5	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 exchanged	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 pepper	case
7	pepper	pepper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 exchanged	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wood	cc
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wood	amod
10	aloes	aloe	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wood	compound
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pepper	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 exchanged	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fishing	det
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 a	punct
17	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 pearls	case
19	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fishing	nmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 some	case
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 pearls	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 merchants	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 merchants	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 merchants	amod
25	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 some	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 lucky	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 lucky	cc
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 divers	nmod:poss
29	divers	diver	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 lucky	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 lucky	cop
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 lucky	advmod
32	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 went	conj
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 had	mark
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 soon	advmod
35	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 had	advmod
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 lucky	advcl
38	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 number	det
39	immense	immense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 number	amod
40	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 those	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 those	cc
43	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 exchanged	obl
44	very	very	ADV	_	45 large	advmod
45	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 those	amod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 perfect	cc
47	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 large	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 exchanged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	exchange	past	I	my nuts	here	for pepper and good aloes wood; those obl	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent nut=Theme for pepper=Co-Theme
2	go	past		a fishing		for pearls with some	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fishing=Theme
3	is	past	my divers			lucky property	tree rules
4	have	past	I	a immense number		soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=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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