The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 18

He sold off everything almost directly, and bought a stock of Egyptian curiosities, which he intended selling at Damascus; but as the caravan with which he would have to travel would not be starting for another six weeks, he took advantage of the delay to visit the Pyramids, and some of the cities along the banks of the Nile.

Who acts: Ali · What happens: sell off, buy, intend, sell, have, travel · To what, where: everything, stock, Egyptian curiosities, Damascus, advantage, Pyramids

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ali), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sold	nsubj
2	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 sold	compound:prt
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 sold	obj
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	6 directly	advmod
6	directly	directly	ADV	_	2 sold	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bought	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bought	cc
9	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sold	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stock	det
11	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bought	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 curiosities	case
13	Egyptian	Egyptian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 curiosities	amod
14	curiosities	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stock	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 intended	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 intended	obj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 intended	nsubj
18	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 curiosities	acl:relcl
19	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 intended	xcomp
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 Damascus	case
21	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 selling	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 took	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	44 took	cc
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 caravan	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 caravan	det
26	caravan	caravan	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 took	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 have	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 have	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 have	aux
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 caravan	acl:relcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 travel	mark
33	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 have	xcomp
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 starting	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 starting	advmod
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 starting	aux
37	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 travel	advcl
38	for	for	ADP	_	41 weeks	case
39	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	41 weeks	det
40	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 weeks	nummod
41	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 starting	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 caravan	punct
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 took	nsubj
44	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sold	parataxis
45	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 took	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 delay	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 delay	det
48	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 advantage	nmod
49	to	to	PART	_	50 visit	mark
50	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 took	advcl
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 Pyramids	det
52	Pyramids	pyramid	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 visit	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 some	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 some	cc
55	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	44 took	conj
56	of	of	ADP	_	58 cities	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 cities	det
58	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 some	nmod
59	along	along	ADP	_	61 banks	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 banks	det
61	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 some	nmod
62	of	of	ADP	_	64 Nile	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 Nile	det
64	Nile	Nile	PROPN	Number=Sing	61 banks	nmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell off	past	Ali	everything			directly property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
2	buy	past	Ali not said here	a stock of Egyptian curiosities				vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stock=Theme
3	intend	past	Ali	Egyptian curiosities				tree rules
4	sell not said to happen	gerund	Ali not said here		Damascus			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent at damascus=Asset
5	have	would	Ali				with the caravan	tree rules
6	travel	to-infinitive	Ali not said here					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not start	would · progressive	Ali not said here			week		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
8	take	past	Ali	advantage of the delay			as the caravan	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme as caravan=Attribute
9	visit	to-infinitive	Ali not said here	the Pyramids				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pyramid=Co-Agent
10	stock			Egyptian curiosities				nom stock «possession transitive»: of=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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