Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Julius Caesar., sentence 24
He had crossed the sea many times, but never in such a storm as this.
Who acts: thunder · What happens: cross · To what, where: sea
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Julius Caesar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thunder), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 crossed | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crossed | aux |
| 3 | crossed | cross | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sea | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crossed | obj |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 times | amod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crossed | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 storm | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 storm | cc |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 storm | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 storm | case |
| 12 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 storm | det:predet |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 storm | det |
| 14 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crossed | parataxis |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 this | case |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 storm | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past · perfect | thunder | the sea | time | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Patient |
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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