The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 71

We had touched at many ports and made much profit, when one day upon the open sea we were caught by a terrible wind which blew us completely out of our reckoning, and lasting for several days finally drove us into harbour on a strange island.

Who acts: We, terrible wind, lasting, our · What happens: touch, make, catch, blow, last, drive · To what, where: many ports, much profit, we, us, reckoning, harbour

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, terrible wind, lasting, our), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 touched	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 touched	aux
3	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 ports	case
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ports	amod
6	ports	port	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 touched	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 made	cc
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 touched	conj
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 profit	amod
10	profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 caught	punct
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 caught	mark
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 day	nummod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 caught	obl:unmarked
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 sea	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sea	det
17	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sea	amod
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 day	nmod
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 caught	nsubj:pass
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 caught	aux:pass
21	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 made	conj
22	by	by	ADP	_	25 wind	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 wind	det
24	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 wind	amod
25	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 caught	obl
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 blew	nsubj
27	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 wind	acl:relcl
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 blew	obj
29	completely	completely	ADV	_	27 blew	advmod
30	out	out	ADP	_	33 reckoning	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 reckoning	case
32	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 reckoning	nmod:poss
33	reckoning	reckoning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 blew	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 drove	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 drove	cc
36	lasting	last	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 drove	csubj
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 days	case
38	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 days	amod
39	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 lasting	obl
40	finally	finally	ADV	_	36 lasting	advmod
41	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 touched	conj
42	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 drove	obj
43	into	into	ADP	_	44 harbour	case
44	harbour	harbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 drove	obl
45	on	on	ADP	_	48 island	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 island	det
47	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 island	amod
48	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 drove	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 touched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	touch	past · perfect	We		many ports			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past	We not said here	much profit				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset profit=Product
3	catch	past · passive	a terrible wind	we		day		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
4	blow	past	a terrible wind	us	our reckoning		completely property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent we=Patient
5	last	gerund				day	finally property	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
6	drive	past	lasting	us	harbour		on a strange island	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme into harbour=Destination on island=Initial_Location
7	reckon		our					nom reckoning «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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