English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 54

The ship with the cat on board, was a long time at sea; and was at last driven by the winds on a part of the coast of Barbary, where the only people were the Moors, unknown to the English.

Who acts: ship, only people · What happens: be, drive · To what, where: long time, sea, Moors

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ship, only people), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ship	det
2	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 time	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 cat	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ship	nmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 board	case
7	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cat	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ship	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 time	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 sea	case
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 time	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 last	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 last	cc
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 last	cop
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 last	case
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 time	parataxis
20	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 last	acl
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 winds	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 winds	det
23	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 driven	obl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 part	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 part	det
26	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 winds	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 coast	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 coast	det
29	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 part	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Barbary	case
31	Barbary	Barbary	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 coast	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Moors	punct
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	39 Moors	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 people	det
35	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 people	amod
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 Moors	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 Moors	cop
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Moors	det
39	Moors	moor	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 Barbary	appos
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 unknown	punct
41	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 Moors	conj
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 English	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 English	det
44	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 unknown	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the ship with the cat on board	a long time	sea		tree rules
2	is	past				last property	tree rules
3	drive	participle				by the winds on a part of the coast of Barbary	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	the only people	the Moors			tree rules
5	be		the only people not said here			to the English	tree rules

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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