Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 30

The old men were rolling big stones up the hill, and all the young men were looking on, and grunting very loudly.

Who acts: old men, young men · What happens: roll, be, look on, grunt · To what, where: rolling big stones

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 (old men, young 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	3 men	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 men	amod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stones	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stones	cop
5	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stones	amod
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stones	amod
7	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	10 hill	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hill	det
10	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stones	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looking	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 looking	cc
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 men	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 men	det
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 men	amod
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 looking	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 looking	aux
18	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 stones	parataxis
19	on	on	ADP	_	18 looking	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 grunting	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 grunting	cc
22	grunting	grunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 looking	conj
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 loudly	advmod
24	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	22 grunting	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stones	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	roll	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	the old men	rolling big stones	up the hill	tree rules
3	look on	past · progressive	all young men			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	grunt	gerund	all young men not said here		loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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