Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 27
Then the robber, with a heavy ax, broke the chain that held the buoy.
Who acts: robber, chain · What happens: break, hold · To what, where: chain, buoy
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 (robber, chain), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 robber | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 robber | det |
| 3 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 broke | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ax | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 ax | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ax | det |
| 7 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ax | amod |
| 8 | ax | ax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 robber | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 robber | punct |
| 10 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chain | det |
| 12 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 broke | obj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 held | nsubj |
| 14 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 chain | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 buoy | det |
| 16 | buoy | buoy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 held | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | the robber and a heavy ax | the chain | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chain=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | the chain | the buoy | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buoy=Theme |
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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