Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 10
The king's horse-men would have a hard time of it getting into Gotham.
Who acts: horse men, brush · What happens: have, get · To what, where: hard time, Gotham
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 (horse men, brush), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 men | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 men | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 horse | punct |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 have | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 have | aux |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 getting | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 getting | nsubj |
| 14 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 time | acl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 Gotham | case |
| 16 | Gotham | Gotham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 getting | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | would | the king's horse men | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | gerund | brush | a hard time not said here | Gotham | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer time=Stimulus |
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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