Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 1
As the abbot was riding up the lane which led to his grand house, he met his shep-herd going to the fields.
Who acts: abbot, lane · What happens: ride up, lead, meet, go · To what, where: lane, shep herd, fields
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Three Answers.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (abbot, lane), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 riding | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 abbot | det |
| 3 | abbot | abbot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 riding | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 riding | aux |
| 5 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 met | advcl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 riding | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lane | det |
| 8 | lane | lane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 riding | obj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 led | nsubj |
| 10 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lane | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 house | nmod:poss |
| 13 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 house | amod |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 led | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 riding | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 met | nsubj |
| 17 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 herd | nmod:poss |
| 19 | shep | shep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 herd | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 shep | punct |
| 21 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 met | obj |
| 22 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 met | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 fields | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fields | det |
| 25 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 going | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride up | past · progressive | the abbot | the lane | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lane=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead | past | the lane | to abbot's grand house | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to house=Patient | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | abbot | abbot's shep herd | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | go | gerund | abbot not said here | the fields | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial_Location |
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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