Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 18
The farmer himself is en-joy-ing the hol-i-day, and he has forgotten to bring them in.
Who acts: farmer · What happens: be, forget, not bring in · To what, where: people
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 (farmer), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 farmer | det |
| 2 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ing | nsubj |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 2 farmer | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ing | cop |
| 5 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ing | vocative |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 en | punct |
| 7 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ing | nsubj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ing | punct |
| 9 | ing | e | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 11 | hol | hol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 i | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 hol | punct |
| 13 | i | i | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 day | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 i | punct |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ing | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 forgotten | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 forgotten | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 forgotten | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 forgotten | aux |
| 20 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 ing | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 bring | mark |
| 22 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 forgotten | xcomp |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bring | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 bring | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the farmer farmer | day | en vocative; e property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | forget | present · perfect | farmer | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not bring in | to-infinitive | farmer not said here | people | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Asset |
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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