Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 35
At that moment the ship gave a great lurch forward into the waves.
Who acts: ship · What happens: give · To what, where: great lurch, waves
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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ship | det |
| 5 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lurch | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lurch | amod |
| 9 | lurch | lurch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 10 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 6 gave | advmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 waves | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 waves | det |
| 13 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gave | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the ship | a great lurch | the waves | moment | forward property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lurch=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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