Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 44
But she is to be married this very day, and the church is five miles away."
Who acts: church · What happens: marry, be · To what, where: Allin
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 (church), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 married | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 married | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 married | aux:pass |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 married | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 married | aux:pass |
| 6 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 day | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 day | advmod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 married | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 away | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 away | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 church | det |
| 13 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 away | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 away | cop |
| 15 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 miles | nummod |
| 16 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 away | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 married | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 married | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry | present · passive | Allin | day | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the church | five miles obl:unmarked; away property | tree rules |
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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