The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 18, sentence 66

When they had despoiled us of all we possessed, they forced us to put on vile raiment, and sailing to a distant island there sold us for slaves.

Who acts: prisoners, we, us, sailing · What happens: despoil, possess, force, put on, sail, sell · To what, where: us, vile raiment, distant island

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 (prisoners, we, us, sailing), 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	4 despoiled	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 despoiled	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 despoiled	aux
4	despoiled	despoil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 possessed	advcl
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 despoiled	iobj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 despoiled	obl
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 possessed	nsubj
9	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 forced	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 forced	nsubj
12	forced	force	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 possessed	conj
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 forced	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 put	mark
15	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 forced	xcomp
16	on	on	ADP	_	15 put	compound:prt
17	vile	vile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 raiment	amod
18	raiment	raiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sold	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sold	cc
21	sailing	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 sold	csubj
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 island	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 island	det
24	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 island	amod
25	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sailing	obl
26	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 sailing	advmod
27	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 possessed	conj
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 sold	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 slaves	case
30	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sold	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 possessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	despoil	past · perfect	prisoners = prisoner		us		of all	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent we=Source of all=Theme
2	possess	past	we					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
3	force	past	prisoners = prisoner	us				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
4	put on	to-infinitive	us not said here	vile raiment				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent raiment=Goal
5	sail	gerund				a distant island; there		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to island=Trajectory
6	sell	past	sailing	us			for slaves	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent we=Theme for slave=Asset

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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