Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 24

But it was hard rowing against such a sea, and it seemed as though they would never reach the place.

Who acts: oar, it, men · What happens: be, seem, not reach · To what, where: hard rowing, place

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Grace Darling.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (oar, it, men), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 rowing	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rowing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rowing	cop
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rowing	amod
5	rowing	rowing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	against	against	ADP	_	9 sea	case
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	9 sea	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rowing	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seemed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seemed	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seemed	nsubj
13	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rowing	acl:relcl
14	as	as	ADV	_	13 seemed	advmod
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	19 reach	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 reach	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 reach	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 reach	advmod
19	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seemed	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 place	det
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 reach	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rowing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	oar	hard rowing	against such sea	tree rules
2	seem	past	it	hard rowing not said here		tree rules
3	not reach	would	men = man	the place		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=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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