The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 17, sentence 48

The first thing our captain did was to divide equally amongst us all the food we possessed, and then the length of each man's life depended on the time he could make his portion last.

Who acts: captain, first thing, we, length · What happens: do, be, possess, depend, make · To what, where: first thing, food, portion

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, first thing, we, length), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 divide	nsubj
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 captain	nmod:poss
5	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thing	acl:relcl
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 divide	cop
8	to	to	PART	_	9 divide	mark
9	divide	divide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	equally	equally	ADV	_	9 divide	advmod
11	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	12 us	case
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 divide	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 food	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 food	det
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 divide	parataxis
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 possessed	nsubj
17	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 food	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 depended	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 depended	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 depended	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 length	det
22	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 depended	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 life	case
24	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	25 man	det
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 life	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 man	case
27	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 length	nmod
28	depended	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 divide	parataxis
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 time	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 time	det
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 make	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 make	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 make	aux
34	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 depended	conj
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 portion	nmod:poss
36	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 make	obj
37	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 make	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 divide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	our captain	the first thing not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	is	past	the first thing			amongst us; divide, equally property	tree rules
3	possess	past	we	all food not said here			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot food=Theme
4	depend	past	the length of each man's life		then		vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	make	could	length	length's portion	time	last property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=Product

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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