Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Concerning These Stories., sentence 6
A fourth class includes the half-legendary tales of a distinctly later origin, which have for their subjects certain romantic episodes in the lives of well-known heroes and famous men, or in the history of a people.
Who acts: fourth class, legendary tales, later origin · What happens: include, have, know, tell · To what, where: legendary tales · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Concerning These Stories.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fourth class, legendary tales, later origin), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 class | det |
| 2 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 class | amod |
| 3 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 includes | nsubj |
| 4 | includes | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tales | det |
| 6 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 legendary | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 half | punct |
| 8 | legendary | legendary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tales | amod |
| 9 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 includes | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 origin | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 origin | det |
| 12 | distinctly | distinctly | ADV | _ | 13 later | advmod |
| 13 | later | late | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 origin | amod |
| 14 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tales | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 have | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 tales | parataxis |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 subjects | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 subjects | nmod:poss |
| 20 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 have | obl |
| 21 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 episodes | amod |
| 22 | romantic | romantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 episodes | amod |
| 23 | episodes | episode | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 subjects | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 lives | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 lives | det |
| 26 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 subjects | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 heroes | case |
| 28 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 known | advmod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 well | punct |
| 30 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 heroes | amod |
| 31 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 lives | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 men | cc |
| 33 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 men | amod |
| 34 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 heroes | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 history | punct |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 39 history | cc |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 history | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 history | det |
| 39 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tales | conj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 people | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 people | det |
| 42 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 history | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 includes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | include | present | a fourth class | the legendary tales of a later origin or the history of a people | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the legendary tales of a later origin or the history of a people | for classes's subjects in the lives of known heroes and famous men and certain romantic episodes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | know | participle | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | tell | a later origin | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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