Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 106

But a very great tempest came on, and the ship being in danger of sinking, he threw all his merchandise overboard, and barely escaped with his life in the empty ship.

Who acts: great tempest, ship, tempest · What happens: come on, be, sink, throw, escape · To what, where: danger, merchandise, empty ship

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great tempest, ship, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 came	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tempest	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 great	advmod
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tempest	amod
5	tempest	tempest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 danger	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 danger	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ship	det
11	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 danger	nsubj
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 danger	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 danger	case
14	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	advcl
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 sinking	mark
16	sinking	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 danger	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 threw	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 threw	nsubj
19	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	parataxis
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 merchandise	det:predet
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 merchandise	nmod:poss
22	merchandise	merchandise	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 threw	obj
23	overboard	overboard	ADV	_	19 threw	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 escaped	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 escaped	cc
26	barely	barely	ADV	_	27 escaped	advmod
27	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 threw	conj
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 life	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 life	nmod:poss
30	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 escaped	obl
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 ship	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ship	det
33	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 ship	amod
34	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 escaped	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come on	past	a great tempest				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	gerund	the ship		danger		tree rules
3	sink	gerund	the ship not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	throw	past	tempest	tempest's merchandise		overboard property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent merchandise=Theme
5	escape	participle	tempest not said here		the empty ship	with tempest's life; barely property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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