Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Damon and Pythias., sentence 24

He had been de-layed by storms and ship-wreck, and he had feared that he was too late.

Who acts: storms, jailer · What happens: laye, fear, be · To what, where: jailer

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Damon and Pythias.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storms, jailer), 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	6 layed	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 layed	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 layed	aux:pass
4	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 layed	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 de	punct
6	layed	laye	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 storms	case
8	storms	storm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 layed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wreck	cc
10	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wreck	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 ship	punct
12	wreck	wreck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 storms	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 feared	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 feared	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 feared	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 feared	aux
17	feared	fear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 layed	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 late	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 late	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 late	cop
21	too	too	ADV	_	22 late	advmod
22	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 feared	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 layed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	laye	past · perfect · passive	storms and ship wreck	jailer		tree rules
2	fear	past · perfect	jailer			vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	jailer		late 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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