Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 20
But the dark objects were not cattle.
Who acts: dark objects · What happens: not be · To what, where: cattle
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 (dark objects), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 cattle | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 objects | det |
| 3 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 objects | amod |
| 4 | objects | object | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cattle | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cattle | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 cattle | advmod |
| 7 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cattle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | the dark objects | cattle | tree rules |
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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