Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 12

In the e-ven-ing, when it was growing dark, the wife of one of the soldiers went up on the wall with her child in her arms.

Who acts: e-ven-ing, wife · What happens: grow, go up

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Black Douglas.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (e-ven-ing, wife), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 e-ven-ing	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 e-ven-ing	det
3	e-ven-ing	e-ven-ing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 e-ven-ing	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 growing	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 growing	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 growing	aux
8	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 e-ven-ing	acl
9	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 growing	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 e-ven-ing	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wife	det
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 one	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 wife	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 soldiers	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 soldiers	det
17	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	nmod
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 went	compound:prt
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 wall	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wall	det
22	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 child	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 child	nmod:poss
25	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 arms	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 arms	nmod:poss
28	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 child	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · progressive	e-ven-ing					dark property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go up	past	the wife of one of the soldiers					on the wall; with wife's child in wife's arms; in the e-ven-ing	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in e-ven-ing=Attribute

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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