Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Three Men of Gotham., sentence 13
Then they beat with their sticks on the ground as though there had been a hundred sheep between them.
Who acts: stories · What happens: beat, be · To what, where: ground, hundred sheep
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 (stories), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 beat | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 beat | nsubj |
| 3 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 sticks | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sticks | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 beat | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 ground | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beat | obl |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 sheep | advmod |
| 11 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 17 sheep | mark |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 been | expl |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 been | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 sheep | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hundred | det |
| 16 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 sheep | nummod |
| 17 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 beat | obl |
| 18 | between | between | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sheep | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | present | stories = story | the ground | then | with stories's sticks | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location | ||
| 2 | is a | participle | hundred sheep | between stories = story | 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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