Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 7

Could any one save the poor, half-drowned men who were there?

Who acts: one, poor drowned men · What happens: save, drown, be · To what, where: poor drowned men

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 (one, poor drowned 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	Could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 save	aux
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 one	det
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 save	nsubj
4	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 men	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 men	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 poor	punct
8	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	10 drowned	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 half	punct
10	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 men	amod
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 save	obj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 there	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 there	cop
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 men	acl:relcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 save	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	save	could	any one	the poor drowned men		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	drown	participle				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the poor drowned men		there property	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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