Fifty Famous Stories Retold, III. the Venture., sentence 2
It was loaded with goods which were to be sold in lands far away.
What happens: load, sell · To what, where: ship, goods, lands
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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 loaded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 loaded | aux:pass |
| 3 | loaded | load | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 goods | case |
| 5 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 loaded | obl |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sold | aux:pass |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 sold | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sold | aux:pass |
| 10 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 goods | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 lands | case |
| 12 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sold | obl |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 away | advmod |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 sold | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | load | past · passive | ship | with goods | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with goods=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sell | past · passive | goods | lands | away property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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