Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 22

He had not been there long when he saw the same young man coming down the road.

Who acts: Hood, same young man · What happens: have, not be, see, come down · To what, where: same young man, road

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, same 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 there	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 there	cop
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 had	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 had	advmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 saw	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
11	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
14	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 man	acl
15	down	down	ADP	_	17 road	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 road	det
17	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 coming	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	Hood		long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is	participle			there property	tree rules
3	see	past	Hood	the same young man		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
4	come down	gerund	the same young man not said here	the road		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location road=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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