Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 11
When they heard the bell ringing, they knew just where the rock was, and they steered their vessels around it.
Who acts: sailors, bell · What happens: hear, ring, know, steer · To what, where: bell, vessels, rock
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, bell), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 knew | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bell | det |
| 5 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | ringing | ring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 bell | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 knew | nsubj |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 where | advmod |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 knew | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rock | det |
| 13 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 was | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 where | advcl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 steered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 steered | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 steered | nsubj |
| 18 | steered | steer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 knew | advcl |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 vessels | nmod:poss |
| 20 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 steered | obj |
| 21 | around | around | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 steered | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | sailors = sailor | the bell | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bell=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ring | gerund | the bell not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know | past | sailors = sailor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | steer | past | sailors = sailor | sailors's vessels | rock | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme around it=Destination |
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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