Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 46
The men who were left alive made haste to launch a small boat.
What happens: leave, make, launch · To what, where: men, small boat
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: 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 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 left | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 left | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux:pass |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 haste | amod |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 haste | amod |
| 8 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 launch | mark |
| 10 | launch | launch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 haste | acl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 boat | det |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 boat | amod |
| 13 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 launch | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · passive | the men | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme haste=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 3 | launch | to-infinitive | a small boat | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=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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