Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 16
And so the prince, and the young people who were with him, gave themselves up to mer-ri-ment and feasting and joy.
Who acts: young people, prince · What happens: be, give up, mer · To what, where: people, ri ment
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 (young people, prince), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 gave | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 prince | det |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 people | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 people | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 people | amod |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 prince | appos |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 him | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 him | cop |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 people | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 prince | punct |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 gave | obj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 gave | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 mer | case |
| 19 | mer | mer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 gave | advcl |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 ment | punct |
| 21 | ri | RI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 ment | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 ment | punct |
| 23 | ment | ment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mer | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 feasting | cc |
| 25 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ment | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 joy | cc |
| 27 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ment | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the young people | with sea | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give up | past | the prince | people | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Source | ||||
| 3 | mer | infinitive | the prince not said here | ri ment and feasting and joy | 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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