Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Philip Sidney., sentence 21
It is said, that, on the day when he was carried to the grave, every eye in the land was filled with tears.
What happens: say, carry, fill · To what, where: wonder, look, land · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Philip Sidney.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 day | punct |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 day | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 day | punct |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 filled | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 carried | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 carried | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 carried | aux:pass |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 day | acl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 grave | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 grave | det |
| 16 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 eye | punct |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 eye | det |
| 19 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 grave | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 land | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 land | det |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obl |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 filled | aux:pass |
| 24 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | ccomp |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 tears | case |
| 26 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 filled | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | wonder | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | carry | past · passive | look | the land | to the grave and every eye | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to grave=Destination | |||
| 3 | fill | past · passive | day | with tears | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with tear=Instrument |
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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