The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 26

So saying, the pilot began to weep afresh, and the crew, fearing their last hour had come, made their wills, each one in favour of his fellow.

Who acts: pilot, crew, last hour, vessels · What happens: say, begin, weep, fear, come, make · To what, where: wills, fellow · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (pilot, crew, last hour, vessels), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 began	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pilot	det
5	pilot	pilot	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 weep	mark
8	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	afresh	afresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 weep	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 crew	det
13	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fearing	punct
15	fearing	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 crew	acl
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hour	nmod:poss
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hour	amod
18	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 fearing	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 crew	punct
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	conj
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wills	nmod:poss
24	wills	will	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 made	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 one	punct
26	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 favour	case
29	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 one	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 fellow	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 fellow	nmod:poss
32	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 favour	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund	the pilot not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	begin	past	the pilot			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	weep	to-infinitive	the pilot not said here		afresh property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fear	gerund	the crew not said here			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	come	past · perfect	vessels's last hour			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	make	past	the crew	vessels's wills	each one in favour of pilot's fellow obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset will=Product
7	will		vessels = vessel			nom will «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
8	favour			pilot's fellow		nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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