Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 18

While he was lis-ten-ing to the birds among the leaves, he saw a young man passing by.

Who acts: Hood, young man · What happens: be, e, see, pass by · To what, where: lis, young man

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 (Hood, young man), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 lis	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lis	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lis	cop
4	lis	li	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 ten	punct
6	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 lis	appos
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 ing	punct
8	ing	e	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 ten	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 birds	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 birds	det
11	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ing	obl
12	among	among	ADP	_	14 leaves	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 leaves	det
14	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 birds	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saw	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ing	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obj
21	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 man	acl
22	by	by	ADP	_	21 passing	fixed
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lis	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Hood	lis		tree rules
2	e	gerund	Hood not said here		to the birds among the leaves	tree rules
3	see	past	Hood	a young man		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
4	pass by	gerund	a young man not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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