Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 11
On the ship, every-thing had been ar-ranged to make the trip a pleasant one.
What happens: range, make · To what, where: thing, ship, trip
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The White Ship.. 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 ship | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ship | det |
| 3 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ranged | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ship | punct |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 thing | det |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 every | punct |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ranged | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ranged | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 ranged | aux:pass |
| 10 | ar | AR | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ranged | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 ar | punct |
| 12 | ranged | range | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ranged | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 trip | det |
| 16 | trip | trip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 one | det |
| 18 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 one | amod |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ranged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | range | past · perfect · passive | every thing | the ship | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | the trip | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trip=Product |
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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