Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 6
So the abbot caused a buoy to be fastened to the rock.
Who acts: abbot · What happens: cause, fasten · To what, where: buoy
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 (abbot), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 caused | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 abbot | det |
| 3 | abbot | abbot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caused | nsubj |
| 4 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 buoy | det |
| 6 | buoy | buoy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caused | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 fastened | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 fastened | aux:pass |
| 9 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 buoy | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 rock | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rock | det |
| 12 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fastened | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past | the abbot | a buoy | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition buoy=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fasten | to-infinitive · passive | the abbot not said here | a buoy not said here | to the rock | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: to rock=Co-Patient |
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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