Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 13

The sun had gone down before the white-winged vessel was fairly out of the bay.

Who acts: sun, winged vessel · What happens: go down, wing, be · To what, where: bay

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: who acts (sun, winged vessel), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 gone	compound:prt
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 bay	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 vessel	det
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 winged	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 white	punct
10	winged	wing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 vessel	amod
11	vessel	vessel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bay	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 bay	cop
13	fairly	fairly	ADV	_	17 bay	advmod
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 bay	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 bay	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bay	det
17	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go down	past · perfect	the sun			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	wing	participle				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the winged vessel	the bay	fairly property	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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