More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 92

On a certain time there were twelve men of Gotham who went fishing, and some went into the water and some on dry ground; and, as they were coming back, one of them said, "We have ventured much this day wading; I pray God that none of us that did come from home be drowned."

Who acts: twelve men, some, men, one, We, day · What happens: be, go, come back, say, venture, wade · To what, where: fishing, water, God, home · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (twelve men, some, men, one), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 were	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 were	expl
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 men	nummod
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 were	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Gotham	case
10	Gotham	Gotham	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 men	nmod
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 men	acl:relcl
13	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 went	cc
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	parataxis
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 water	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 water	det
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 went	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 some	cc
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 went	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 ground	case
24	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ground	amod
25	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 some	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 coming	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 coming	cc
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 and	punct
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 coming	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 coming	nsubj
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 coming	aux
32	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 were	advcl
33	back	back	ADV	_	32 coming	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 said	punct
35	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 said	nsubj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 one	nmod
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 coming	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 ventured	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	43 ventured	punct
41	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 ventured	nsubj
42	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 ventured	aux
43	ventured	venture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 said	ccomp
44	much	much	ADV	_	43 ventured	advmod
45	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	46 day	det
46	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 ventured	obl:unmarked
47	wading	wade	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 day	acl
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 pray	punct
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 pray	nsubj
50	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 were	conj
51	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 pray	obj
52	that	that	SCONJ	_	58 come	mark
53	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	58 come	nsubj
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 us	case
55	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 none	nmod
56	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 come	nsubj
57	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 come	aux
58	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 pray	advcl
59	from	from	ADP	_	60 home	case
60	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 come	obl
61	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	62 drowned	aux:pass
62	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 come	advcl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 were	punct
64	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	past	twelve men of Gotham		there	time	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	twelve men of Gotham	fishing			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fishing=Theme
3	go	past	some		the water		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location
4	come back	past · progressive	men = man				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	one of men				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	venture in a quote	present · perfect	We			day	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
7	wade in a quote	gerund	this day not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	pray in a quote	present	I	God			tree rules
9	come in a quote	past · do-support	none		home		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from home=Initial_Location
10	drown in a quote	infinitive · passive	none not said here				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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