Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 1
In the North Sea there is a great rock called the Inch-cape Rock.
Who acts: great rock · What happens: be, call · To what, where: North Sea, cape Rock · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Inchcape Rock.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great rock), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 Sea | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Sea | det |
| 3 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Sea | compound |
| 4 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 is | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 is | expl |
| 6 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 rock | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rock | amod |
| 9 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | nsubj |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 rock | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Rock | det |
| 12 | Inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cape | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Inch | punct |
| 14 | cape | cape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Rock | compound |
| 15 | Rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a great rock | the North Sea; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a great rock not said here | the cape Rock | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rock=Recipient |
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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