Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 37
Ship and boat, prince and prin-cess, and all the gay com-pa-ny that had set sail from France, went down to the bottom together.
Who acts: Ship · What happens: set, go down · To what, where: gay pa ny
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 | Ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 went | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 boat | cc |
| 3 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ship | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 prince | punct |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ship | appos |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cess | cc |
| 7 | prin | prin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cess | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 prin | punct |
| 9 | cess | cess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ship | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ny | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 ny | cc |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 ny | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ny | det |
| 14 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ny | amod |
| 15 | com | com | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pa | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 com | punct |
| 17 | pa | pa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ny | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 pa | punct |
| 19 | ny | ny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ship | appos |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 set | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 set | aux |
| 22 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 ny | acl:relcl |
| 23 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 set | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 France | case |
| 25 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 sail | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ship | punct |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | down | down | ADV | _ | 27 went | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 bottom | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bottom | det |
| 31 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 went | obl |
| 32 | together | together | ADV | _ | 27 went | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · perfect · passive | all gay pa ny | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme sail=Destination | |||||
| 2 | go down | past | Ship and boat and prin cess | to the bottom; down, together property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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