The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 35

Here we were at the mercy of the winds and waves, which tossed us to and fro all that day and night, but the next morning we found ourselves near an island, upon which we gladly landed.

Who acts: we, winds · What happens: be, toss, fro, find, land · To what, where: mercy, us, ourselves, island

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, winds), 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	6 mercy	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 mercy	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mercy	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 mercy	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mercy	det
6	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 winds	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 winds	det
9	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mercy	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 waves	cc
11	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 winds	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tossed	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 tossed	nsubj
14	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 winds	parataxis
15	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tossed	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	14 tossed	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fro	cc
18	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tossed	conj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 day	det:predet
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 day	det
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fro	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 night	cc
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 day	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 found	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 found	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 morning	det
27	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 morning	amod
28	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 found	obl:unmarked
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 mercy	parataxis
31	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 found	obj
32	near	near	ADP	_	34 island	case
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 island	det
34	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 found	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 landed	punct
36	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 which	case
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 landed	obl
38	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 landed	nsubj
39	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	40 landed	advmod
40	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 island	acl:relcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 mercy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	we		the mercy and the winds and waves; here			tree rules
2	toss	past	the winds and waves	us				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient
3	fro	infinitive	the winds and waves not said here			day		tree rules
4	find	past	we	ourselves	a island	morning		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Topic
5	land	past	we				upon a island; gladly property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=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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