Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Three Men of Gotham., sentence 20
Just then another man of Gotham came from the market with a sack of meal on his horse.
Who acts: man · What happens: come · To what, where: market
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 (man), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 then | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 came | advmod |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 man | det |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Gotham | case |
| 6 | Gotham | Gotham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 man | nmod |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 market | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 market | det |
| 10 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 sack | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sack | det |
| 13 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 meal | case |
| 15 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sack | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 horse | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 horse | nmod:poss |
| 18 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 meal | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | another man of Gotham | the market | then | with a sack of meal on Gotham's horse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from market=Initial_Location |
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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