Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Three Men of Gotham., sentence 3
Hodge was coming from the market, and Peter was going to the market.
Who acts: Hodge, Peter · What happens: come, go · 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 (Hodge, 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 | Hodge | Hodge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 coming | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 coming | aux |
| 3 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 market | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 market | det |
| 6 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coming | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 going | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 going | cc |
| 9 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 going | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 going | aux |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 coming | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 market | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 market | det |
| 14 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 going | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · progressive | Hodge | the market | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from market=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | Peter | the market | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to 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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