Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 7

The buoy floated back and forth in the shallow water.

Who acts: buoy · What happens: float · To what, where: shallow water

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 (buoy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 buoy	det
2	buoy	buoy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 floated	nsubj
3	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 floated	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 forth	cc
6	forth	forth	ADV	_	4 back	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 water	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
9	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 water	amod
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 floated	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 floated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	past	the buoy			the shallow water			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory

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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