Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Three Men of Gotham., sentence 24
Peter did so, and the man carried his meal to the side of the bridge.
Who acts: Peter, man · What happens: do, carry · To what, where: meal, side
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, 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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 carried | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 carried | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | nsubj |
| 8 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 meal | nmod:poss |
| 10 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 side | det |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 bridge | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bridge | det |
| 16 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 side | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Peter | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | carry | past | the man | Peter's meal | the side of the bridge | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent meal=Theme to side=Destination |
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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