Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Humphrey Gilbert., sentence 11

Great white ice-bergs came drifting around them.

Who acts: Great white ice bergs · What happens: come, drift

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Humphrey Gilbert.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great white ice bergs), 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	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bergs	amod
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bergs	amod
3	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bergs	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 ice	punct
5	bergs	berg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	drifting	drift	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 came	xcomp
8	around	around	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 drifting	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Great white ice bergs						tree rules
2	drift	gerund	Great white ice bergs not said here					around bergs = berg	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around they=Trajectory

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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