Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Soldier., sentence 8
It was a wounded Swede who spoke.
Who acts: drink, wounded Swede · What happens: be, speak · To what, where: wounded Swede · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (drink, wounded Swede), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Swede | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Swede | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Swede | det |
| 4 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Swede | amod |
| 5 | Swede | swede | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 spoke | nsubj |
| 7 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Swede | acl:relcl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Swede | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | drink | a wounded Swede | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | a wounded Swede | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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