Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 17
They are the farmer's cattle, trying to find their way home.
Who acts: people · What happens: be, try, find · To what, where: cattle, way
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 (people), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cattle | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cattle | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 farmer | det |
| 4 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cattle | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 farmer | case |
| 6 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 trying | punct |
| 8 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 cattle | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 find | mark |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 trying | xcomp |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 way | nmod:poss |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 find | obj |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 find | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cattle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | people | the farmer's cattle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | try | gerund | people not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | people not said here | people's way | home property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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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