Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 1
One day, news was brought to Gotham that the king was coming that way, and that he would pass through the town.
Who acts: king · What happens: bring, come, pass · To what, where: news, Gotham, way, town
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Other Wise 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 (king), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brought | aux:pass |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Gotham | case |
| 8 | Gotham | Gotham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 coming | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 coming | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 coming | aux |
| 13 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 brought | advcl |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 way | det |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 coming | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pass | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pass | cc |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 pass | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pass | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 pass | aux |
| 21 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 brought | conj |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 town | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 town | det |
| 24 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pass | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | news | Gotham | day | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to gotham=Destination | |||
| 2 | come | past · progressive | the king | that way | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass | would | king | the town | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through town=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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