Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Humphrey Gilbert., sentence 20

The little vessel, with brave Sir Humphrey and all his brave men, was swal-lowed up by the waves.

Who acts: waves · What happens: low up · To what, where: little vessel

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 (waves), 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	3 vessel	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 vessel	amod
3	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lowed	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Humphrey	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 Humphrey	case
6	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Humphrey	amod
7	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Humphrey	nmod:desc
8	Humphrey	Humphrey	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 vessel	appos
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 men	cc
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 men	det:predet
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 men	nmod:poss
12	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 men	amod
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 Humphrey	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 vessel	punct
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lowed	aux:pass
16	swal	swal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 lowed	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 swal	punct
18	lowed	low	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 lowed	compound:prt
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 waves	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 waves	det
22	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lowed	obl:agent
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 lowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	low up	past · passive	the waves	the little vessel					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=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: «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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