Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Humphrey Gilbert., sentence 5
Twice did he bring men and ships over the sea, and twice did he fail, and sail back for England.
Who acts: Sir · What happens: bring, fail, sail back · To what, where: men, sea
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 (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 | Twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 bring | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 bring | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ships | cc |
| 7 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 men | conj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fail | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fail | cc |
| 13 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 fail | advmod |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fail | aux |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fail | nsubj |
| 16 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 bring | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sail | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sail | cc |
| 19 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 fail | conj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 sail | advmod |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 England | case |
| 22 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sail | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · do-support | Sir | men and ships | the sea | twice property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination | ||
| 2 | fail | past · do-support | Sir | twice property | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sail back | infinitive | Sir not said here | for England | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent 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: «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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