Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 13
One calm summer day, a ship with a black flag happened to sail not far from the Inch-cape Rock.
Who acts: One calm summer day · What happens: happen, not sail · To what, where: cape 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 (One calm summer day), 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 | 4 day | nummod |
| 2 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 3 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | compound |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ship | det |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 happened | nsubj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 flag | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 flag | det |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 flag | amod |
| 11 | flag | flag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ship | nmod |
| 12 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 sail | mark |
| 14 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 happened | xcomp |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 sail | advmod |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 sail | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 Rock | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Rock | det |
| 19 | Inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cape | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Inch | punct |
| 21 | cape | cape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Rock | compound |
| 22 | Rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sail | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | One calm summer day | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not sail | to-infinitive | One calm summer day not said here | the cape Rock | far property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from rock=Trajectory |
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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