Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 36

After a while they went back to England; and whether the mother made up any more songs about the Black Douglas I cannot tell.

Who acts: Women, mother, I · What happens: go back, make up, not tell · To what, where: England, more songs · 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 (Women, mother, I), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 while	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 England	case
8	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 tell	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 tell	cc
11	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	13 mother	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mother	det
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tell	advcl
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 mother	acl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 made	compound:prt
16	any	any	ADV	_	17 more	advmod
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 songs	amod
18	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 made	obj
19	about	about	ADP	_	22 Douglas	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Douglas	det
21	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Douglas	compound
22	Douglas	Douglas	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 songs	nmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 tell	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 tell	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 tell	advmod
26	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	Women = woman		England	while		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to england=Result
2	make up	participle	the mother not said here	more songs			about the Black Douglas	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme song=Pivot
3	not tell speech: assert	can	I					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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