Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 52
Was it the abbot's bell, ringing for him far down at the bottom of the sea?
Who acts: wretch, bell · What happens: be, ring · To what, where: bell, bottom
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 (wretch, bell), 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 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bell | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bell | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 abbot | det |
| 4 | abbot | abbot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bell | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 abbot | case |
| 6 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bell | punct |
| 8 | ringing | ring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 bell | acl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ringing | obl |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 down | advmod |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 ringing | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 bottom | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bottom | det |
| 15 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ringing | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sea | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bottom | nmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 bell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | wretch | the abbot's bell | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ring | gerund | the abbot's bell not said here | the bottom of the sea | for Abbot; down property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bottom=Location |
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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