Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 43
"I thought I heard the roar of breakers," said the pilot. "
Who acts: I, pilot, breakers · What happens: think, hear, say, roar · To what, where: roar · 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 (I, pilot, breakers), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 roar | det |
| 7 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 breakers | case |
| 9 | breakers | breaker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 roar | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pilot | det |
| 14 | pilot | pilot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | past | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear in a quote | past | I | the roar of breakers | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer roar=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the pilot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | roar in a quote | breakers | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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