Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 8

Then they went on board of the ship which was waiting to carry them home.

Who acts: Henry, ship · What happens: go, wait, carry · To what, where: board, Henry

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 (Henry, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 board	case
5	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 ship	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ship	det
8	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 board	nmod
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 waiting	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 waiting	aux
11	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 ship	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 carry	mark
13	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 waiting	xcomp
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 carry	obj
15	home	home	ADV	_	13 carry	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Henry		board of the ship	then		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on board=Location
2	wait	past · progressive	the ship					tree rules
3	carry	to-infinitive	the ship not said here	Henry			home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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