Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Guest., sentence 4
The winds drove the ship upon the rocks, and it was wrecked.
Who acts: winds · What happens: drive, wreck · To what, where: ship, rocks
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 (winds), 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 | 2 winds | det |
| 2 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drove | nsubj |
| 3 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drove | obj |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 rocks | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rocks | det |
| 8 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drove | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wrecked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wrecked | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wrecked | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 wrecked | aux:pass |
| 13 | wrecked | wreck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 drove | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | the winds | the ship | the rocks | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ship=Theme upon rock=Destination | |||
| 2 | wreck | past · passive | ship | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=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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