Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 16
The two lads ran to the town as fast as they could, and made known what the king had said.
Who acts: two lads, king · What happens: run, make, know, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (two lads, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lads | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 lads | nummod |
| 3 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 fast | advmod |
| 9 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 ran | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 could | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 could | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 fast | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 16 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 made | xcomp |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 said | obj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 said | aux |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 known | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the two lads | to the town result; fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to town=Result | ||||
| 2 | make | past | the two lads not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know | participle | the two lads not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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