Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 12
Long after he was dead, men liked to talk about his deeds.
Who acts: Robin, men · What happens: be, like, talk
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Story of Robin Hood.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Robin, men), 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 | Long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 liked | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 dead | case |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dead | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | cop |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Long | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Long | punct |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 liked | nsubj |
| 8 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 talk | mark |
| 10 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 liked | xcomp |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 deeds | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 13 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 talk | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 liked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Robin | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | like | past | men | long property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | talk not said to happen | to-infinitive | men not said here | about Robin's deeds | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about deed=Topic |
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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