Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 10
Sailors, now, were no longer afraid to cross the sea at that place.
Who acts: Sailors · What happens: be, cross · To what, where: sea, place
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 (Sailors), 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 | Sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 afraid | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sailors | punct |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Sailors | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sailors | punct |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 afraid | cop |
| 6 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 longer | advmod |
| 7 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 afraid | advmod |
| 8 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 cross | mark |
| 10 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 afraid | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sea | det |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cross | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cross | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Sailors | afraid, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cross | to-infinitive | Sailors not said here | the sea | that place | 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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