Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Humphrey Gilbert., sentence 13

The men on the "Hind" saw Sir Humphrey sitting on the deck of the "Squirrel" with an open book in his hand.

Who acts: men, Sir · What happens: see, sit · To what, where: Sir, deck

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 (men, Sir), 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 men	det
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 saw	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 Hind	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Hind	det
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Hind	punct
6	Hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 men	nmod
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Hind	punct
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
10	Humphrey	Humphrey	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Sir	flat
11	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 saw	xcomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 deck	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 deck	det
14	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 Squirrel	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Squirrel	det
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 Squirrel	punct
18	Squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 deck	nmod
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 Squirrel	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 book	case
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 book	det
22	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 book	amod
23	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sitting	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 hand	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hand	nmod:poss
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 book	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the men on the Hind	Sir					tree rules
2	sit	gerund	Sir not said here			the deck of the Squirrel		with a open book in man's hand	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on deck=Location

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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