Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Merchant and His Sons., sentence 9
At length, however, a violent storm tore to pieces many of his ships, which were coming home richly laden.
Who acts: ships · What happens: come, lade · To what, where: length
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Merchant and His Sons.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ships), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 2 length | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tore | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tore | det |
| 7 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tore | amod |
| 8 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tore | compound |
| 9 | tore | tore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 length | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 pieces | case |
| 11 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tore | nmod |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 pieces | amod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ships | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 ships | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 many | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 coming | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 coming | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 coming | aux |
| 19 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 ships | conj |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 coming | advmod |
| 21 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 22 laden | advmod |
| 22 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 coming | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · progressive | death's ships | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lade | participle | death's ships not said here | richly property | tree rules |
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: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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