Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 5

The other half lay yet on the rock, and those of the crew who were still alive were cling-ing to it.

Who acts: other half, crew, those · What happens: lay, be · To what, where: rock, cling ing, half

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 (other half, crew, those), 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 half	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 half	amod
3	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	yet	yet	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 rock	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rock	det
8	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ing	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ing	cc
11	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 ing	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 crew	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 crew	det
14	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 those	nmod
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 alive	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 alive	cop
17	still	still	ADV	_	18 alive	advmod
18	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 crew	acl:relcl
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 ing	cop
20	cling	cling	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 ing	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 cling	punct
22	ing	ing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 it	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 ing	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	the other half			the rock	yet		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on rock=Destination
2	is	past	the crew				still	alive property	tree rules
3	is a	past	those	cling ing	half				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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