Peter Pan, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP, sentence 148
The pirates respectfully cleared a passage for him, and it was only when he brought up against the bulwarks that he spoke.
Who acts: pirates, passage, force · What happens: clear, be, speak · To what, where: passage, bulwarks · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XIV. THE PIRATE SHIP. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pirates, passage, force), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pirates | det |
| 2 | pirates | pirate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cleared | nsubj |
| 3 | respectfully | respectfully | ADV | _ | 4 cleared | advmod |
| 4 | cleared | clear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 passage | det |
| 6 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cleared | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 passage | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 brought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 brought | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brought | nsubj:outer |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 brought | cop |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 brought | advmod |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 brought | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brought | nsubj |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cleared | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 brought | compound:prt |
| 18 | against | against | ADP | _ | 20 bulwarks | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bulwarks | det |
| 20 | bulwarks | bulwark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 brought | obl |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 spoke | obj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 spoke | nsubj |
| 23 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 bulwarks | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cleared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clear | past | the pirates | a passage | for force; respectfully property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent passage=Product for he=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | is | past | passage | against the bulwarks; bring property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | force | the bulwarks | 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: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (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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