Peter Pan, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE, sentence 30
“Avast belay, yo ho, heave to, A-pirating we go, And if we’re parted by a shot We’re sure to meet below!”
Who acts: we · What happens: heave, pirate, go, be, part, 're · To what, where: Avast belay, shot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter V. THE ISLAND COME TRUE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 belay | punct |
| 2 | Avast | avast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belay | compound |
| 3 | belay | belay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heave | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ho | punct |
| 5 | yo | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Slng | 6 ho | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belay | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 heave | punct |
| 8 | heave | heave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 heave | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pirating | punct |
| 11 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pirating | det |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 A | punct |
| 13 | pirating | pirate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 heave | advcl |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 pirating | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 parted | punct |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 parted | cc |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 ’re | mark |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 ’re | nsubj |
| 20 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 parted | advcl |
| 21 | parted | part | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 heave | parataxis |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 shot | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 shot | det |
| 24 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 parted | obl |
| 25 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 ’re | nsubj |
| 26 | ’re | 're | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 shot | acl:relcl |
| 27 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ’re | xcomp |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 meet | mark |
| 29 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 sure | xcomp |
| 30 | below | below | ADV | _ | 29 meet | advmod |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 parted | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 parted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heave in a quote | present | Avast belay and yo's ho | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pirate in a quote | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present | we | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | we | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | part in a quote | participle | by a shot | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | 're in a quote | past | We | a shot not said here | sure property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | meet in a quote | to-infinitive | We not said here | below property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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