Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 32

"We are rolling stones up-hill to make the sun rise," said one of the old men.

Who acts: We, sun, one · What happens: roll, make, rise, say · To what, where: stones, hill · 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 (We, sun, one), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 rolling	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 rolling	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rolling	aux
4	rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 said	ccomp
5	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rolling	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	8 hill	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 up	punct
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stones	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 make	mark
10	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rolling	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sun	det
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rise	nsubj
13	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 make	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 rolling	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 rolling	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 said	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 men	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 men	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 men	amod
21	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 one	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	roll in a quote	present · progressive	We	stones	hill	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent stone=Theme up hill=Trajectory
2	make in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here			tree rules
3	rise in a quote	infinitive	the sun			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	one of the old men			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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