Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Soldier., sentence 6

All at once he heard some one say,--

Who acts: soldier · What happens: hear · To what, where: one say

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.

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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 heard	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 once	case
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 heard	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 say	det
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 say	nummod
8	say	say	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	soldier	some one say					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer say=Stimulus

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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