Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 88

As he sailed off the coast of Greece, a violent tempest arose in which the ship was wrecked and he, his Monkey, and all the crew were obliged to swim for their lives.

Who acts: SAILOR, violent tempest · What happens: sail, arise, wreck, monkey, oblige, swim · To what, where: coast, ship, crew

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SAILOR, violent tempest), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 sailed	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sailed	nsubj
3	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 arose	advcl
4	off	off	ADP	_	6 coast	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 coast	det
6	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sailed	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Greece	case
8	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 coast	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sailed	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tempest	det
11	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tempest	amod
12	tempest	tempest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arose	nsubj
13	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 wrecked	obl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ship	det
17	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wrecked	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 wrecked	aux:pass
19	wrecked	wreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 arose	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 Monkey	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 Monkey	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Monkey	punct
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 Monkey	nmod:poss
24	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wrecked	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 obliged	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 obliged	cc
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 crew	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 crew	det
29	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 obliged	nsubj:pass
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 obliged	aux:pass
31	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 arose	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 swim	mark
33	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 obliged	xcomp
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 lives	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 lives	nmod:poss
36	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 swim	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 arose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sail	past	SAILOR		the coast of Greece		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent off coast=Trajectory
2	arise	past	a violent tempest				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wreck	past · passive		the ship			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	monkey		SAILOR				tree rules
5	oblige	past · passive		all crew			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
6	swim	to-infinitive				for Monkey's lives	vn run-51.3.2-1 «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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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