Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 33
The sea robber laughed as he looked back and saw that there was nothing to mark the place of the hidden rock.
Who acts: sea robber, robber, nothing · What happens: laugh, look back, see, be, mark · To what, where: place · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sea robber, robber, nothing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 robber | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 robber | compound |
| 3 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 looked | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 looked | nsubj |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughed | ccomp |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 looked | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 looked | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 was | mark |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | ccomp |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 was | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 mark | mark |
| 16 | mark | mark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 nothing | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mark | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 rock | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rock | det |
| 21 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rock | amod |
| 22 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 place | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the sea robber | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look back | past | robber | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | past | robber not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | mark | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | the place of the hidden rock | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent place=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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