Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 15

The moon was at its full, and it would give light enough; and before the dawn of the morrow, the narrow sea would be crossed.

Who acts: moon · What happens: be, give, cross · To what, where: light, narrow sea

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 (moon), 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 moon	det
2	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 full	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 full	cop
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 full	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 full	nmod:poss
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 give	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 give	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 give	aux
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 full	parataxis
12	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 give	obj
13	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 light	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 crossed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 crossed	cc
16	before	before	ADP	_	18 dawn	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dawn	det
18	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 crossed	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 morrow	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 morrow	det
21	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dawn	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dawn	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sea	det
24	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sea	amod
25	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 crossed	nsubj:pass
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 crossed	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 crossed	aux:pass
28	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 full	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the moon			full property	tree rules
2	give	would	moon	light			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme
3	cross	would · passive		the narrow sea	dawn		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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