Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 33

When Sir Humphrey made his first voy-age to America, Sir Walter was with him.

Who acts: Sir, Walter · What happens: make, be · To what, where: first voy age, America

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Walter Raleigh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, Walter), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 made	mark
2	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
3	Humphrey	Humphrey	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Sir	flat
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 him	advcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 age	nmod:poss
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 age	amod
7	voy	voy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 age	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 voy	punct
9	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 America	case
11	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
13	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Walter	nmod:desc
14	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 him	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 him	cop
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 him	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	Sir	Sir's first voy age	America				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Product
2	is	past	Walter Sir					with Sir	tree rules

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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