Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Bruce and the Spider., sentence 7

One rainy day, Bruce lay on the ground under a rude shed, lis-ten-ing to the patter of the drops on the roof above him.

Who acts: Bruce, lis, drops · What happens: lie, e, patter · To what, where: ground

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Bruce and the Spider.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bruce, lis, drops), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
2	rainy	rainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
5	Bruce	Bruce	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lay	nsubj
6	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl
10	under	under	ADP	_	13 shed	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 shed	det
12	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 shed	amod
13	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ing	punct
15	lis	lis	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ing	nsubj
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 lis	punct
17	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 ing	nsubj
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 ten	punct
19	ing	e	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 lay	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 patter	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 patter	det
22	patter	patter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ing	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 drops	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 drops	det
25	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 patter	nmod
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 roof	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 roof	det
28	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drops	nmod
29	above	above	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 roof	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	Bruce	the ground	day	under a rude shed	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
2	e	gerund	lis			to the patter of the drops on the roof above Bruce	tree rules
3	patter		the drops on the roof above Bruce				nom patter «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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