Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 48
Any other place was safer now than on board of that burning ship.
Who acts: other place · What happens: be, burn
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 (other place), 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 | Any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 place | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 place | amod |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 safer | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 safer | cop |
| 5 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 safer | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 board | case |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 board | case |
| 9 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 safer | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 ship | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 ship | det |
| 12 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 ship | amod |
| 13 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 board | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 safer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | any other place | now | than board of that burning ship; safe property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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