Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 19
He saw the buoy floating above the Inchcape Rock.
Who acts: God, buoy · What happens: see, float · To what, where: buoy, Inchcape 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 (God, buoy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 buoy | det |
| 4 | buoy | buoy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 buoy | acl |
| 6 | above | above | ADP | _ | 9 Rock | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Rock | det |
| 8 | Inchcape | Inchcape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Rock | compound |
| 9 | Rock | Rock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 floating | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | God | the buoy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer buoy=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | float | gerund | the buoy not said here | the Inchcape Rock | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above 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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