Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 33
The boat was again brought along-side of the sinking vessel.
What happens: bring, sink · To what, where: boat
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boat | det |
| 2 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brought | aux:pass |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 brought | advmod |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | along | along | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 along | punct |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brought | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 vessel | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 vessel | det |
| 11 | sinking | sink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 vessel | amod |
| 12 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 side | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | the boat | again | along side of the sinking vessel | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | sink | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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