The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 44

From time to time we landed at various islands, where we sold or exchanged our merchandise, and one day, when the wind dropped suddenly, we found ourselves becalmed close to a small island like a green meadow, which only rose slightly above the surface of the water.

Who acts: we, wind · What happens: land, sell, exchange, drop, find, becalm · To what, where: various islands, merchandise, ourselves, green meadow, surface · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, wind), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 time	case
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 landed	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 time	case
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 time	nmod
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 landed	nsubj
6	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 islands	case
8	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 islands	amod
9	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 landed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sold	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 sold	advmod
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 sold	nsubj
13	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 islands	acl:relcl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 exchanged	cc
15	exchanged	exchange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 sold	conj
16	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 merchandise	nmod:poss
17	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 exchanged	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dropped	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 dropped	cc
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 day	nummod
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dropped	obl:unmarked
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dropped	punct
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 dropped	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wind	det
25	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dropped	nsubj
26	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 landed	conj
27	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	26 dropped	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 found	punct
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 found	nsubj
30	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 landed	conj
31	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 found	obj
32	becalmed	becalm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 found	ccomp
33	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 becalmed	advmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 island	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 island	det
36	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 island	amod
37	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 becalmed	obl
38	like	like	ADP	_	41 meadow	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 meadow	det
40	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 meadow	amod
41	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 island	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 rose	punct
43	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 rose	obj
44	only	only	ADV	_	45 rose	advmod
45	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 meadow	acl:relcl
46	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	45 rose	advmod
47	above	above	ADP	_	49 surface	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 surface	det
49	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 rose	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 water	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 water	det
52	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 surface	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 landed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	past	we		various islands	time		vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	sell	past	we					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
3	exchange	past	we not said here	our merchandise				vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchandise=Theme
4	drop	past	the wind			day	suddenly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	find	past	we	ourselves				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent ourselves=Attribute clause=Theme
6	becalm	participle					to a small island like a green meadow; close property	tree rules
7	rise	past		a green meadow	the surface of the water		slightly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Theme

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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