Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 14
The ship belonged to a sea robber called Ralph the Rover; and she was a terror to all honest people both on sea and shore.
Who acts: ship, Ralph · What happens: belong, call, be · To what, where: sea robber, terror · 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 (ship, Ralph), 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 ship | det |
| 2 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belonged | nsubj |
| 3 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 robber | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 robber | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 robber | compound |
| 7 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belonged | obl |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 robber | acl |
| 9 | Ralph | Ralph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Rover | det |
| 11 | Rover | Rover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ralph | appos |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 terror | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 terror | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 terror | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 terror | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 terror | det |
| 17 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 belonged | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 people | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 people | det |
| 20 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 people | amod |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 terror | nmod |
| 22 | both | both | ADV | _ | 24 sea | advmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 sea | case |
| 24 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 people | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 shore | cc |
| 26 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sea | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 belonged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | past | the ship | to a sea robber | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a sea robber not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Ralph | a terror | to all honest people on sea and shore | tree rules |
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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