Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Three Men of Gotham., sentence 2
One day two men of Go-tham met on a bridge.
What happens: meet · To what, where: Go tham, bridge
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: 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 men | compound |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 men | nummod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tham | case |
| 6 | Go | Go | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tham | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Go | punct |
| 8 | tham | tham | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 men | nmod |
| 9 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tham | acl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 bridge | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bridge | det |
| 12 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 men | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | participle | Go tham not said here | a bridge | vn meet-36.3-1 «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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