Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 17
Ralph the Rover was walking on the deck.
Who acts: Ralph · What happens: walk · To what, where: deck
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 (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 | Ralph | Ralph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 walking | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Rover | det |
| 3 | Rover | Rover | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ralph | appos |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walking | aux |
| 5 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 deck | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 deck | det |
| 8 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walking | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | Ralph | the deck | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on deck=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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