Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 9
He then di-vid-ed it fairly among them, giving to each man his just share.
Who acts: vid ed, man · What happens: give, share · To what, where: 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 (vid ed, 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 | 7 ed | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 ed | advmod |
| 3 | di | DI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ed | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 di | punct |
| 5 | vid | vid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ed | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ed | punct |
| 7 | ed | ed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 them | nsubj |
| 9 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 11 them | advmod |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ed | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 giving | punct |
| 13 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 ed | acl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 giving | obl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 share | nmod:poss |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 share | advmod |
| 19 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 man | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund | vid ed among men not said here | each man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | share | infinitive | each man not said here | 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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