Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 32
Soon a breeze sprang up, and the black ship sailed away.
Who acts: breeze, black ship · What happens: spring up, sail away
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 (breeze, black ship), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 sprang | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 breeze | det |
| 3 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | nsubj |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 sprang | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sailed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sailed | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ship | det |
| 9 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ship | amod |
| 10 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sailed | nsubj |
| 11 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | conj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 sailed | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | a breeze | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sail away | past | the black ship | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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