Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 30
There was a gur-gling sound as it sank out of sight.
Who acts: gling sound, sound · What happens: be, gl, sink · To what, where: sight
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 (gling sound, sound), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sound | det |
| 4 | gur | gur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gling | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 gur | punct |
| 6 | gling | gl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 sound | amod |
| 7 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 sank | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sank | nsubj |
| 10 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 sight | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sight | case |
| 13 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sank | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a gling sound | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | gl | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | sink | past | sound | sight | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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