Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 14
In the dusk she could not make out what they were, and so she pointed them out to one of the watch-men.
Who acts: wife · What happens: not make out, point out · To what, where: objects, one
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 (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 dusk | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dusk | det |
| 3 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 make | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 make | advmod |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 make | compound:prt |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 make | obj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 were | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pointed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pointed | cc |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 pointed | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pointed | nsubj |
| 16 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | parataxis |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 pointed | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 pointed | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 pointed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 men | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 men | det |
| 23 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 men | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 watch | punct |
| 25 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 one | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make out | could | wife | dusk | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | point out | past | wife | objects = object | one of the watch men | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to one=Recipient |
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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