Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 17

Over his shepherd's coat he threw the abbot's long gown, and he bor-rowed the abbot's cap and golden staff.

Who acts: shepherd · What happens: throw, row · To what, where: long gown, coat, cap

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 (shepherd), 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	Over	over	ADP	_	5 coat	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 shepherd	nmod:poss
3	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coat	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 shepherd	case
5	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threw	obl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 threw	nsubj
7	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 abbot	det
9	abbot	abbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gown	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 abbot	case
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 gown	amod
12	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threw	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rowed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rowed	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 rowed	nsubj
16	bor	bor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rowed	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 bor	punct
18	rowed	row	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 threw	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 abbot	det
20	abbot	abbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cap	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 abbot	case
22	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 rowed	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 staff	cc
24	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 staff	amod
25	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cap	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	shepherd	the abbot's long gown		shepherd's shepherd's coat			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent gown=Theme over coat=Destination
2	row	participle	shepherd	the abbot's cap and golden staff					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent cap=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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