The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 18

For forty days wind and weather were all in our favour, but the next night a terrific storm arose, which blew us hither and thither for ten days, till the pilot confessed that he had quite lost his bearings.

Who acts: wind, terrific storm, pilot · What happens: be, arise, blow, confess, lose · To what, where: favour, us, bearings

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, terrific storm, pilot), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 favour	obl
4	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 favour	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 weather	cc
6	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wind	conj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 favour	cop
8	all	all	ADV	_	11 favour	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 favour	case
10	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 favour	nmod:poss
11	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 arose	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 arose	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 night	det
15	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 night	amod
16	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 arose	obl:unmarked
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 storm	det
18	terrific	terrific	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 storm	amod
19	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 arose	nsubj
20	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 favour	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 blew	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 blew	nsubj
23	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 arose	conj
24	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 blew	obj
25	hither	hither	ADV	_	23 blew	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 thither	cc
27	thither	thither	ADV	_	25 hither	conj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 days	case
29	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 days	nummod
30	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 blew	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 confessed	punct
32	till	till	SCONJ	_	35 confessed	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 pilot	det
34	pilot	pilot	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 confessed	nsubj
35	confessed	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 blew	conj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 lost	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 lost	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 lost	aux
39	quite	quite	ADV	_	40 lost	advmod
40	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 confessed	ccomp
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 bearings	nmod:poss
42	bearings	bearing	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 lost	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 favour	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	wind and weather		our favour	day	all property	tree rules
2	arise	past	a terrific storm			night		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	blow	past		us		day	hither property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent we=Patient
4	confess	past	the pilot					vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	lose	past · perfect	pilot	pilot's bearings				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bearing=Eventuality

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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