Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 17

The ear-li-er hours of the night passed by; and then there was a cry of alarm on deck.

Who acts: er hours · What happens: pass by, be · To what, where: night, cry, deck

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 (er hours), 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	7 hours	det
2	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 li	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 ear	punct
4	li	li	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 er	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 li	punct
6	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hours	compound
7	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cry	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 night	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hours	nmod
11	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 night	acl
12	by	by	ADP	_	11 passed	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 was	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 was	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 was	advmod
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 was	expl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 cry	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cry	det
19	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 alarm	case
21	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cry	nmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 deck	case
23	deck	deck	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cry	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 cry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass by	participle		the night not said here					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	the er hours of the night	a cry		deck		of alarm	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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