Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 43
He soon came to a field where a number of men were building a stone wall.
Who acts: world, number · What happens: come, build · To what, where: field, stone wall
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 (world, number), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 field | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 field | det |
| 6 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 building | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 number | det |
| 9 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 building | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 men | case |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 number | nmod |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 building | aux |
| 13 | building | build | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 field | acl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wall | det |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wall | compound |
| 16 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 building | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | world | a field | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | build | past · progressive | a number of men | a stone wall | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wall=Product |
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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