Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 25

The woman watched them until the last one had passed around a corner out of sight.

Who acts: woman, last one · What happens: watch, pass · To what, where: objects, corner

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 (woman, last one), 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 woman	det
2	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 watched	nsubj
3	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 watched	obj
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 passed	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passed	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 passed	aux
10	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 watched	advcl
11	around	around	ADP	_	13 corner	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 corner	det
13	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passed	obl
14	out	out	ADP	_	16 sight	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 sight	case
16	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passed	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 watched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	the woman	objects = object					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	pass	past · perfect	the last one			a corner		out sight	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme around corner=Initial_Location out sight=Destination

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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