Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Three Men of Gotham., sentence 26
And he opened the mouth of the sack, and poured all the meal into the river.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: open, pour · To what, where: mouth, meal, river
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 opened | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mouth | det |
| 5 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sack | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sack | det |
| 8 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mouth | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 poured | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 poured | cc |
| 11 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | parataxis |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 meal | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 meal | det |
| 14 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 poured | obj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 river | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 river | det |
| 17 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 poured | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | Peter | the mouth of the sack | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pour | past | all meal | the river | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent meal=Theme into river=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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