Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 26

They pushed off just as the ship was be-gin-ning to settle beneath the waves.

Who acts: friends, ship · What happens: push off, be, settle · To what, where: gin ning

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 (friends, ship), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pushed	nsubj
2	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 pushed	compound:prt
4	just	just	ADV	_	13 ning	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 ning	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ship	det
7	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ning	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ning	cop
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 ning	cop
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 gin	punct
11	gin	gin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ning	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 gin	punct
13	ning	ning	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pushed	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 settle	mark
15	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ning	acl
16	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	18 waves	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 waves	det
18	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 settle	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	push off	past	friends = friend			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	the ship	gin ning		tree rules
3	settle	to-infinitive	friends = friend not said here		beneath the waves	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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