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# The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 71

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We had touched at many ports and made much profit, when one day upon the open sea we were caught by a terrible wind which blew us completely out of our reckoning, and lasting for several days finally drove us into harbour on a strange island.

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**Who acts:** We, terrible wind, lasting, our · **What happens:** touch, make, catch, blow, last, drive · **To what, where:** many ports, much profit, we, us, reckoning, harbour

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This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, terrible wind, lasting, our), 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:pg128:14:71
# text = We had touched at many ports and made much profit, when one day upon the open sea we were caught by a terrible wind which blew us completely out of our reckoning, and lasting for several days finally drove us into harbour on a strange island.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	touched	touch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ports	port	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	profit	profit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
12	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	21	mark	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	reckoning	reckoning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
36	lasting	last	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	csubj	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
40	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
41	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
42	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	into	into	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	harbour	harbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	on	on	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | past · perfect | We |  |  | many ports |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | We *not said here* | much profit |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset profit=Product |
| 3 | **catch** | past · passive | a terrible wind | we |  |  | day |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 4 | **blow** | past | a terrible wind | us |  | our reckoning |  | completely *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent we=Patient |
| 5 | **last** | gerund |  |  |  |  | day | finally *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **drive** | past | lasting | us |  | harbour |  | on a strange island | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme into harbour=Destination on island=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **reckon** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom reckoning «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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