Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 35
At last he chanced to sail back toward the place from which he had started.
Who acts: Rover · What happens: chance, sail back, start · To what, where: last, place
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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chanced | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 chanced | nsubj |
| 4 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sail | mark |
| 6 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 chanced | xcomp |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 sail | advmod |
| 8 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sail | obl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 started | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 started | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 started | aux |
| 15 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 place | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 chanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chance | past | Rover | last | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sail back | to-infinitive | Rover not said here | the place | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent toward place=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | start | past · perfect | Rover | the place | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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