Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 51
The sheriff next met a man who was carrying a door on his back.
Who acts: sheriff, man · What happens: meet, carry · To what, where: man, door, back
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 (sheriff, man), 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 sheriff | det |
| 2 | sheriff | sheriff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | nsubj |
| 3 | next | next | ADV | _ | 4 met | advmod |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | obj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 carrying | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 carrying | aux |
| 9 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 man | acl:relcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carrying | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 back | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 back | nmod:poss |
| 14 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carrying | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the sheriff | a man | next property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | carry | past · progressive | a man | a door | sheriff's back | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme |
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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