Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Three Men of Gotham., sentence 21

He heard his neigh-bors quar-rel-ing about sheep; but he could see no sheep between them, and so he stopped and spoke to them.

Who acts: Peter · What happens: hear, see, stop, speak · To what, where: neigh bors, sheep · 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 (Peter), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bors	nmod:poss
4	neigh	neigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bors	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 neigh	punct
6	bors	bor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 heard	obj
7	quar	quar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ing	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 quar	punct
9	rel	rel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ing	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 ing	punct
11	ing	ing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 sheep	case
13	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ing	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 see	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 see	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 see	aux
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 heard	conj
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 sheep	det
20	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 see	obj
21	between	between	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 see	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stopped	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stopped	cc
25	so	so	ADV	_	27 stopped	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stopped	nsubj
27	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 spoke	cc
29	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 stopped	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 spoke	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Peter	Peter's neigh bors			tree rules
2	see	could	Peter	no sheep		between sheep	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sheep=Stimulus
3	stop	past	Peter				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	speak speech: other	past	Peter not said here		sheep		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-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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