Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Humphrey Gilbert., sentence 4
Sir Hum-phrey Gilbert was one of the first men who tried to make a set-tle-ment in A-mer-i-ca.
Who acts: Sir, first men · What happens: be, try, make · To what, where: one, tle ment
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Humphrey Gilbert.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, first men), 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 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 one | nsubj |
| 2 | Hum | Hum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sir | flat |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 phrey | punct |
| 4 | phrey | phrey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sir | appos |
| 5 | Gilbert | Gilbert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 phrey | appos |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | cop |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 men | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 men | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 men | amod |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 tried | nsubj |
| 13 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 men | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 tried | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 ment | det |
| 17 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tle | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
| 19 | tle | tle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ment | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 tle | punct |
| 21 | ment | ment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 i | case |
| 23 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 i | det |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 A | punct |
| 25 | mer | mer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 i | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 mer | punct |
| 27 | i | i | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obl |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 ca | punct |
| 29 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 i | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Sir | one | of the first men | tree rules | |||
| 2 | try | past | the first men | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | the first men not said here | a tle ment | in a mer i | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ment=Product |
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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