--- title: All the ships sank or were damaged beyond repair, except for the Bri… — Apia · tree and pragmatics description: All the ships sank or were damaged beyond repair, except for the British cruiser Calliope, which managed to leave port, travelling at a rate of one mile per hour, and was able to ride out the storm. Who acts: ships, Calliope. 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All the ships sank or were damaged beyond repair, except for the British cruiser Calliope, which managed to leave port, travelling at a rate of one mile per hour, and was able to ride out the storm. **Who acts:** ships, Calliope · **What happens:** sink, damage, manage, leave, travel, be · **To what, where:** port, rate, storm This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Apia». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ships, Calliope), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = wikipedia:Apia:13 # text = All the ships sank or were damaged beyond repair, except for the British cruiser Calliope, which managed to leave port, travelling at a rate of one mile per hour, and was able to ride out the storm. 1 All all DET PDT PronType=Tot 3 det:predet _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sank sink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 damaged damage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 8 beyond beyond ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 repair repair NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 except except ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 cruiser cruiser NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:desc _ _ 16 Calliope Calliope PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 managed manage VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 port port NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 travelling travel VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 25 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 rate rate NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 mile mile NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 per per ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 ride ride VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 out out ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sink** | past | all ships | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **damage** | past · passive | all ships *not said here* | | | | | beyond repair; except Calliope for the British cruiser | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP» | | 3 | **manage** | past | Calliope for the British cruiser | | | | | | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **leave** | to-infinitive | Calliope for the British cruiser *not said here* | port | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent port=Theme | | 5 | **travel** | gerund | Calliope for the British cruiser *not said here* | | | a rate of one mile per hour | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at rate=Trajectory | | 6 | **is** | past | all ships *not said here* | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **ride out** | to-infinitive | all ships *not said here* | the storm | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=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:** the English Wikipedia, «Apia», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Apia/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Apia/14/) - ↑ back to [Apia](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/wikipedia/en/Apia/)