Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 7
Whom should he see waiting there but the captain, with a bill of lading in one hand and a box of jewels in the other?
Who acts: Fitzwarren, bill · What happens: see, wait, lade · To what, where: one hand
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 (Fitzwarren, bill), 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 | Whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 see | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 see | xcomp |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 waiting | advmod |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 captain | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 captain | det |
| 9 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waiting | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bill | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 bill | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bill | det |
| 13 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | obl |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 lading | mark |
| 15 | lading | lade | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 bill | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 hand | nummod |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lading | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 box | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 box | det |
| 21 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hand | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 jewels | case |
| 23 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 box | nmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 other | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 other | det |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lading | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | should | Fitzwarren | with a bill | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wait | gerund | Fitzwarren not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lade | gerund | a bill not said here | one hand and a box of jewels | in the other | 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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