Fifty Famous Stories Retold, IV. the Cat., sentence 1
Mr. Fitzwarren's ship made a long voyage, and at last reached a strange land on the other side of the sea.
Who acts: ship · What happens: make, reach · To what, where: long voyage, strange land, last
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, IV. the Cat.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ship), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Fitzwarren | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Fitzwarren | Fitzwarren | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ship | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Fitzwarren | case |
| 4 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 voyage | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 voyage | amod |
| 8 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reached | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 reached | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 reached | obl |
| 13 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 land | det |
| 15 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 land | amod |
| 16 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reached | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 side | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 side | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 side | amod |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reached | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sea | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sea | det |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 side | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Fitzwarren Mr.'s ship | a long voyage | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material voyage=Product | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | Fitzwarren Mr.'s ship not said here | a strange land | last | on the other side of the sea | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent land=Theme at last=Asset |
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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