Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 47
They leaped into it, and rowed swiftly away.
Who acts: men · What happens: leap, row · To what, where: haste
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 (men), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 leaped | nsubj |
| 2 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 leaped | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rowed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rowed | cc |
| 7 | rowed | row | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaped | conj |
| 8 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 9 away | advmod |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 rowed | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | past | men = man | haste | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Destination | ||||
| 2 | row | past | men = man not said here | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: 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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