Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 43

And with that, he threw off his long gown.

Who acts: abbot · What happens: throw off · To what, where: long gown

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), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 threw	cc
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 that	case
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 threw	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 that	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 threw	nsubj
6	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 threw	compound:prt
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 gown	nmod:poss
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 gown	amod
10	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 threw	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw off	past	abbot	abbot's long gown				with that	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gown=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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