Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 38
One man clung to a floating plank, and was saved the next day.
Who acts: One man · What happens: cling, float, save
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 (One man), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 man | nummod |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clung | nsubj |
| 3 | clung | cling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 plank | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 plank | det |
| 6 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 plank | amod |
| 7 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 clung | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saved | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saved | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saved | aux:pass |
| 11 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 clung | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 13 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 day | amod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saved | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 clung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cling | participle | One man | to a floating plank | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to plank=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | float | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | save | past · passive | One man not said here | day | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP» |
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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