Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 22
Some of them were dragging ladders behind them through the grass.
Who acts: Some · What happens: drag · To what, where: ladders, grass
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 (Some), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 dragging | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Some | nmod |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dragging | aux |
| 5 | dragging | drag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | ladders | ladder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dragging | obj |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dragging | obl |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 grass | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 grass | det |
| 11 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dragging | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dragging | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag | past · progressive | Some | ladders | the grass | behind objects = object | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladder=Theme |
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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