Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 9

On the top of the buoy the abbot placed a bell; and when the waves dashed against it, the bell would ring out loud and clear.

Who acts: abbot, waves, bell · What happens: place, dash, ring out · To what, where: bell, top, 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, waves, 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 top	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 top	det
3	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 placed	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 buoy	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 buoy	det
6	buoy	buoy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 top	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 abbot	det
8	abbot	abbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 placed	nsubj
9	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bell	det
11	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 placed	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 dashed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 dashed	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 dashed	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 waves	det
16	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 dashed	nsubj
17	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 placed	conj
18	against	against	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 dashed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ring	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bell	det
22	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ring	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 ring	aux
24	ring	ring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 placed	parataxis
25	out	out	ADV	_	24 ring	advmod
26	loud	loud	ADV	_	24 ring	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 clear	cc
28	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ring	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	place	past	the abbot	a bell	the top of the buoy		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent bell=Theme on top=Destination
2	dash	past	the waves		buoy		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against it=Trajectory
3	ring out	would	the bell			loud, out property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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