Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Guest., sentence 3
One day this soldier was on board of a ship at sea when a great storm came up.
Who acts: One day, great storm · What happens: be, come up · To what, where: board
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Ungrateful Guest.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One day, great storm), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 board | nsubj |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 soldier | det |
| 4 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 board | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 board | cop |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 board | case |
| 7 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ship | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ship | det |
| 10 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 board | nmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 sea | case |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ship | nmod |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 came | mark |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 storm | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 storm | amod |
| 16 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 board | advcl |
| 18 | up | up | ADV | _ | 17 came | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 board | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | One day | board | of a ship at sea | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come up | past | a great storm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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