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title: For forty days wind and weather were all in our favour, but the next… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics
description: For forty days wind and weather were all in our favour, but the next night a terrific storm arose, which blew us hither and thither for ten days, till the pilot confessed that he had quite lost his bearings. Who acts: wind, terrific storm, pilot. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by 
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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 18

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For forty days wind and weather were all in our favour, but the next night a terrific storm arose, which blew us hither and thither for ten days, till the pilot confessed that he had quite lost his bearings.

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**Who acts:** wind, terrific storm, pilot · **What happens:** be, arise, blow, confess, lose · **To what, where:** favour, us, bearings

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind, terrific storm, pilot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg128:11:18
# text = For forty days wind and weather were all in our favour, but the next night a terrific storm arose, which blew us hither and thither for ten days, till the pilot confessed that he had quite lost his bearings.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
4	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	terrific	terrific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
24	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	25	conj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	pilot	pilot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	confessed	confess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
36	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
38	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
39	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	ccomp	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	bearings	bearing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | wind and weather |  |  | our favour | day | all *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **arise** | past | a terrific storm |  |  |  | night |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **blow** | past |  | us |  |  | day | hither *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent we=Patient |
| 4 | **confess** | past | the pilot |  |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **lose** | past · perfect | pilot | pilot's bearings |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bearing=Eventuality |

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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.

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**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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