Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 5
"It is a pity," he said, "that so many brave sailors should lose their lives on that hidden rock."
Who acts: rock, Ab, that · What happens: be, say, lose · To what, where: pity, lives, hidden rock · 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 (rock, Ab, that), 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 | _ | 5 pity | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pity | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pity | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pity | det |
| 5 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pity | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 pity | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lose | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 lose | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 lose | nsubj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 lose | advmod |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sailors | amod |
| 15 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sailors | amod |
| 16 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lose | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 lose | aux |
| 18 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 lives | nmod:poss |
| 20 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lose | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 rock | case |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 rock | det |
| 23 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 rock | amod |
| 24 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lose | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 lose | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | rock | a pity | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ab | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | lose in a quote | should | that | sailors's lives | that hidden rock | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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