The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 38

When they did at last discover our position we had small ground for rejoicing, for the captain, casting his turban upon the deck and tearing his beard, declared that we were in the most dangerous spot upon the whole wide sea, and had been caught by a current which was at that minute sweeping us to destruction.

Who acts: guests, we, captain, current, minute · What happens: do, discover, have, cast, tear, declare · To what, where: position, small ground, turban, deck, beard, dangerous spot · 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 (guests, we, captain, current), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 did	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	SCONJ	_	6 discover	mark
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 discover	amod
6	discover	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 position	nmod:poss
8	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 discover	obj
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 position	acl:relcl
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ground	amod
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 rejoicing	case
14	rejoicing	rejoicing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ground	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 captain	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 captain	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 captain	det
18	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 discover	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 casting	punct
20	casting	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 captain	acl
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 turban	nmod:poss
22	turban	turban	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 casting	obj
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 deck	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 deck	det
25	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 casting	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 tearing	cc
27	tearing	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 casting	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 beard	nmod:poss
29	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tearing	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 declared	punct
31	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 captain	parataxis
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 spot	mark
33	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 spot	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 spot	cop
35	in	in	ADP	_	39 spot	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 spot	det
37	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	38 dangerous	advmod
38	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 spot	amod
39	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 declared	ccomp
40	upon	upon	ADP	_	44 sea	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 sea	det
42	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 sea	amod
43	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 sea	amod
44	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 spot	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 caught	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 caught	cc
47	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 caught	aux
48	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	49 caught	aux:pass
49	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 did	conj
50	by	by	ADP	_	52 current	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 current	det
52	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 caught	obl
53	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 minute	nsubj
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 minute	cop
55	at	at	ADP	_	57 minute	case
56	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	57 minute	det
57	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 current	acl:relcl
58	sweeping	sweep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	57 minute	acl
59	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	58 sweeping	obj
60	to	to	ADP	_	61 destruction	case
61	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 sweeping	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	guests = guest				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	discover	present	guests = guest not said here	our position			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Topic
3	have	past	we	small ground		for rejoicing	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Patient
4	cast	gerund	the captain not said here	captain's turban	the deck		vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent turban=Theme upon deck=Destination
5	tear	gerund	the captain not said here	captain's beard			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location beard=Theme
6	declare speech: other	past					vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	we		the dangerous spot	upon the whole wide sea	tree rules
8	catch	past · perfect · passive	a current				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	is	past	a current			at that minute	tree rules
10	sweep	gerund	that minute not said here	us	destruction		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent we=Theme to destruction=Trajectory

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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