The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 37
And truly he did so, for we fell in with stormy weather which drove us completely out of our course, so that for many days neither captain nor pilot knew where we were, nor where we were going.
Who acts: captain, we, stormy weather, many days · What happens: do, fall in, drive, know, be, go · To what, where: us, course · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (captain, we, stormy weather, many days), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 did | cc |
| 2 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fell | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 fell | mark |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 10 | in | in | ADV | _ | 9 fell | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 weather | case |
| 12 | stormy | stormy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 weather | amod |
| 13 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | obl |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 drove | nsubj |
| 15 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 weather | acl:relcl |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 drove | obj |
| 17 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 15 drove | advmod |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 course | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 course | case |
| 20 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 course | nmod:poss |
| 21 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drove | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 knew | punct |
| 23 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 32 knew | mark |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 so | fixed |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 so | fixed |
| 26 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 days | amod |
| 27 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 knew | nsubj |
| 28 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 29 captain | cc:preconj |
| 29 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 days | appos |
| 30 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 31 pilot | cc |
| 31 | pilot | pilot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 captain | conj |
| 32 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fell | conj |
| 33 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 were | advmod |
| 34 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 were | nsubj |
| 35 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 knew | ccomp |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 going | punct |
| 37 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 41 going | cc |
| 38 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 41 going | advmod |
| 39 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 going | nsubj |
| 40 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 going | aux |
| 41 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 did | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | captain | truly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fall in | past | we | with stormy weather | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drive | past | stormy weather | us | our course | completely property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent we=Theme out course=Trajectory | ||
| 4 | know | past | many days | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | be | past | we | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | go | past · progressive | we | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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