--- title: And truly he did so, for we fell in with stormy weather which drove… — The Arabian Nights Entertainments · tree and pragmatics description: And truly he did so, for we fell in with stormy weather which drove us completely out of our course, so that for many days neither captain nor pilot knew where we were, nor where we were going. Who acts: captain, we, stormy weather, many days. A sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by And --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/37/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Arabian Nights Entertainments](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/) / [Opening, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/) / 37 # The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 37 And truly he did so, for we fell in with stormy weather which drove us completely out of our course, so that for many days neither captain nor pilot knew where we were, nor where we were going. **Who acts:** captain, we, stormy weather, many days · **What happens:** do, fall in, drive, know, be, go · **To what, where:** us, course · **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 (captain, we, stormy weather, many days), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg128:17:37 # text = And truly he did so, for we fell in with stormy weather which drove us completely out of our course, so that for many days neither captain nor pilot knew where we were, nor where we were going. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 truly truly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 for for SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 in in ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 stormy stormy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 drove drive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 completely completely ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 18 out out ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 23 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 32 mark _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 fixed _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 23 fixed _ _ 26 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 28 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 29 cc:preconj _ _ 29 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 30 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 31 cc _ _ 31 pilot pilot NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 33 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 35 advmod _ _ 34 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 41 cc _ _ 38 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 41 advmod _ _ 39 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | captain | | | | | truly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **fall in** | past | we | | | | | with stormy weather | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **drive** | past | stormy weather | us | | our course | | completely *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent we=Theme out course=Trajectory | | 4 | **know** | past | many days | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **be** | past | we | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **go** | past · progressive | we | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/38/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/17/)