The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 65

On the fifth day we had the misfortune to fall in with pirates, who seized our vessel, killing all who resisted, and making prisoners of those who were prudent enough to submit at once, of whom I was one.

Who acts: we, pirates, I · What happens: have, fall in, seize, kill, resist, make · To what, where: misfortune, vessel, all, prisoners, one

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, pirates, I), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	fifth	fifth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 misfortune	det
8	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 fall	mark
10	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 misfortune	acl
11	in	in	ADV	_	10 fall	advmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 pirates	case
13	pirates	pirate	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fall	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seized	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 seized	nsubj
16	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pirates	acl:relcl
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 vessel	nmod:poss
18	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seized	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 killing	punct
20	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 seized	advcl
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 killing	obj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 resisted	nsubj
23	resisted	resist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 all	acl:relcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 making	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 making	cc
26	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 had	advcl
27	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 making	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 those	case
29	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	27 prisoners	nmod
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 prudent	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 prudent	cop
32	prudent	prudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 those	acl:relcl
33	enough	enough	ADV	_	32 prudent	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 submit	mark
35	submit	submit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 prudent	advcl
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 once	case
37	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	35 submit	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 whom	punct
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 whom	case
40	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 submit	obl
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 one	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 one	cop
43	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 whom	parataxis
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	we	the misfortune	day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent misfortune=Patient
2	fall in	to-infinitive	we not said here	the misfortune not said here		with pirates	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seize	past	pirates	our vessel			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme
4	kill	gerund	pirates not said here	all			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme
5	resist	past					tree rules
6	make	gerund	we not said here	prisoners of those			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset prisoner=Product
7	is	past				enough, prudent property	tree rules
8	submit	to-infinitive					vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	is a	past	I	one			tree rules

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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