Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 28
They had rowed hardly ten yards from the ship, when there was a cry from among those that were left behind.
Who acts: friends, cry · What happens: row, be, leave behind · To what, where: ten yards, ship, those
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, cry), 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 | 3 rowed | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rowed | aux |
| 3 | rowed | row | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 5 ten | advmod |
| 5 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 yards | nummod |
| 6 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rowed | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 ship | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ship | det |
| 9 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rowed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 was | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 was | advmod |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rowed | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cry | det |
| 15 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 was | nsubj |
| 16 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 21 left | mark |
| 17 | among | among | ADP | _ | 21 left | mark |
| 18 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 left | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 left | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 left | aux:pass |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 was | advcl |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 21 left | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | row | past · perfect | friends = friend | ten yards | the ship | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent yard=Theme from ship=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | be | past | a cry | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave behind | past · passive | those | behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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