Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Soldier., sentence 5
He was about to take a drink from a flask.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: be, take · To what, where: drink, flask
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Ungrateful Soldier.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg18442:479): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 about | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 about | cop |
| 3 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 about | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 drink | det |
| 7 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 flask | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 flask | det |
| 10 | flask | flask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | soldier | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | soldier not said here | a drink | a flask | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent drink=Theme from flask=Initial_Location |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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