Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 34

For many days, Ralph the Rover scoured the seas, and many were the ships that he plun-dered.

Who acts: Ralph, Rover · What happens: scour, be, der · To what, where: seas, many ships

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 (Ralph, Rover), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 scoured	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 days	punct
5	Ralph	Ralph	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 scoured	nsubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Rover	det
7	Rover	Rover	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Ralph	appos
8	scoured	scour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 seas	det
10	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 scoured	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ships	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 ships	cc
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ships	amod
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 ships	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ships	det
16	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 scoured	obl
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 dered	obj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 dered	nsubj
19	plun	plun	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dered	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 plun	punct
21	dered	der	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 ships	acl:relcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 scoured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	scour	past	Ralph	the seas	day	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sea=Source
2	is a	past		the many ships		tree rules
3	der	participle	Rover	the many ships		tree rules

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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