Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 24
None of the English soldiers dreamed that they were within many miles of the place.
Who acts: None, objects · What happens: dream, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (None, 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 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 6 dreamed | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 soldiers | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 soldiers | det |
| 4 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 soldiers | amod |
| 5 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 None | nmod |
| 6 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 miles | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 miles | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 miles | cop |
| 10 | within | within | ADP | _ | 12 miles | case |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 miles | amod |
| 12 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dreamed | ccomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 miles | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dreamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | past | None | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | objects = object | within many miles; of the place | 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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