Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 50
But the captain's son, young Ca-sa-bi-an'ca, still stood upon the deck.
Who acts: Ca, son · What happens: an'ca, stand · To what, where: deck
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 (Ca, son), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 stood | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 captain | det |
| 3 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 captain | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 an'ca | punct |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 an'ca | amod |
| 8 | Ca | Ca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 an'ca | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Ca | punct |
| 10 | sa | sa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 an'ca | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 sa | punct |
| 12 | bi | bi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 an'ca | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 an'ca | punct |
| 14 | an'ca | an'ca | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 stood | advmod |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 deck | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 deck | det |
| 20 | deck | deck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | an'ca | Ca | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | stand | past | the captain's son | the deck | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon deck=Location |
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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