Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 18
The men ran from house to house, carrying the news, and asking one another what they should do.
Who acts: men · What happens: run, carry, ask, do · To what, where: house, news, one
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 (men), 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 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 carrying | punct |
| 9 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ran | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 news | det |
| 11 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carrying | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asking | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asking | cc |
| 14 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 carrying | conj |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 asking | obl |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 one | fixed |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 do | obj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 do | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asking | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the men | house | to house result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result | |||
| 2 | carry | gerund | the men not said here | the news | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the men not said here | one | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | should | men = man | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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