Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Opening, sentence 2
FIFTY FAMOUS STORIES RETOLD
What happens: retell · To what, where: FIFTY FAMOUS STORIES
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | FIFTY | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 STORIES | nummod |
| 2 | FAMOUS | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 STORIES | amod |
| 3 | STORIES | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | RETOLD | retell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 STORIES | acl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retell | participle | FIFTY FAMOUS STORIES not said here | 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: «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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