Fifty Famous Stories Retold, III. the Venture., sentence 1
Some time after that, a ship that belonged to Mr. Fitzwarren was about to start on a voyage across the sea.
Who acts: ship, time · What happens: belong, be, start · To what, where: Fitzwarren, voyage
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, III. the Venture.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ship, time), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 about | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 that | case |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ship | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ship | det |
| 7 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 time | appos |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 belonged | nsubj |
| 9 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ship | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Fitzwarren | case |
| 11 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Fitzwarren | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Fitzwarren | Fitzwarren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 belonged | obl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 about | cop |
| 14 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 start | mark |
| 16 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 about | xcomp |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 voyage | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 voyage | det |
| 19 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 start | obl |
| 20 | across | across | ADP | _ | 22 sea | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sea | det |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 voyage | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | past | a ship | Fitzwarren Mr. | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | some time after that | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | start | to-infinitive | some time after that not said here | a voyage across the sea | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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