Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Humphrey Gilbert., sentence 6
The second time, he was on a little ship called the "Squirrel."
Who acts: Sir · What happens: be, call · To what, where: little ship, Squirrel · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ship | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ship | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ship | cop |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 ship | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ship | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ship | amod |
| 10 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ship | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Squirrel | det |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Squirrel | punct |
| 14 | Squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ship | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 ship | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Sir | a little ship | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | participle | a little ship not said here | the Squirrel | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent squirrel=Recipient |
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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