Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 2
It is twelve miles from any land, and is covered most of the time with water.
Who acts: rock · What happens: be, cover · To what, where: twelve miles, land, most
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 (rock), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 miles | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 miles | cop |
| 3 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 miles | nummod |
| 4 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 land | case |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 land | det |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 miles | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 covered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 covered | cc |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 covered | aux:pass |
| 11 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 miles | conj |
| 12 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 covered | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 most | nmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 time | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 miles | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | rock | twelve miles | any land | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cover | present · passive | rock not said here | most of the time with water | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: most=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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