Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Three Men of Gotham., sentence 1
There is a town in England called Go-tham, and many merry stories are told of the queer people who used to live there.
Who acts: town, queer people · What happens: be, call, tell, use, live · To what, where: town, many merry stories · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Three Men of Gotham.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town, queer people), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 town | det |
| 4 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 England | case |
| 6 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 town | nmod |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 town | acl |
| 8 | Go | Go | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 tham | punct |
| 10 | tham | tham | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Go | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 told | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 told | cc |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stories | amod |
| 14 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stories | amod |
| 15 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 told | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 told | aux:pass |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 is | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 people | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 people | det |
| 20 | queer | queer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 people | compound |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 told | obl |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 used | nsubj |
| 23 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 people | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 live | mark |
| 25 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 used | xcomp |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 live | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a town in England | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a town in England not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | many merry stories | of the queer people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | use | past | the queer people | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | live | to-infinitive | the queer people not said here | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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