Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 41
The water was strewn with broken masts and pieces of timber which the cannon balls had knocked from the ships.
Who acts: water · What happens: be, knock · To what, where: cannon balls, ships
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strewn | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 strewn | cop |
| 4 | strewn | strewn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 masts | case |
| 6 | broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 masts | amod |
| 7 | masts | mast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 strewn | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pieces | cc |
| 9 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 masts | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 timber | case |
| 11 | timber | timber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pieces | nmod |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 knocked | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 balls | det |
| 14 | cannon | cannon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 balls | compound |
| 15 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 knocked | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 knocked | aux |
| 17 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 timber | acl:relcl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 ships | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ships | det |
| 20 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 knocked | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 strewn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the water | with broken masts and pieces of timber; strewn property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | knock | past · perfect · passive | the cannon balls | the ships | tree rules |
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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