Fifty Famous Stories Retold, III. the Venture., sentence 11

What are you going to send out on the ship?"

What happens: go, send out · To what, where: ship

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: 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 going	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 send	mark
6	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 going	xcomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 send	compound:prt
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 ship	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ship	det
10	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 send	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · progressive							vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	send out	to-infinitive				the ship			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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