The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 82

I took ship at a distant seaport, and for some time all went well, but at last, being caught in a violent hurricane, our vessel became a total wreck in spite of all our worthy captain could do to save her, and many of our company perished in the waves.

Who acts: I, vessel, worthy captain, many · What happens: take, go, catch, become, do, save · To what, where: ship, distant seaport, last, total wreck, vessel

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, vessel, worthy captain, many), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 seaport	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 seaport	det
6	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 seaport	amod
7	seaport	seaport	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 went	cc
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 time	case
11	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 time	det
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 went	advmod
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 went	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 caught	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 caught	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 last	case
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 caught	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 last	punct
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 caught	aux:pass
22	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 took	parataxis
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 hurricane	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 hurricane	det
25	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hurricane	amod
26	hurricane	hurricane	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 caught	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 became	punct
28	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 vessel	nmod:poss
29	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 became	nsubj
30	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 caught	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 wreck	det
32	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 wreck	amod
33	wreck	wreck	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 became	xcomp
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 spite	case
35	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wreck	nmod
36	of	of	SCONJ	_	42 do	mark
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 do	det:predet
38	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 captain	nmod:poss
39	worthy	worthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 captain	amod
40	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 do	nsubj
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 do	aux
42	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 wreck	acl
43	to	to	PART	_	44 save	mark
44	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 do	advcl
45	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 save	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 perished	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 perished	cc
48	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 perished	nsubj
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 company	case
50	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 company	nmod:poss
51	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 many	nmod
52	perished	perish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 took	parataxis
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 waves	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 waves	det
55	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 perished	obl:agent
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	I	ship	a distant seaport			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent ship=Theme at seaport=Asset
2	go	past	I not said here			time	well property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	catch	gerund · passive			last		in a violent hurricane	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: at last=Asset
4	become	past	our vessel	a total wreck in spite				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	do	could	our worthy captain	a total wreck in spite not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wreck=Eventuality
6	save	to-infinitive	our worthy captain not said here	vessel				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
7	perish	participle	many of our company					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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