Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Concerning These Stories., sentence 7
It is to this last class that most of the fifty stories contained in the present volume belong.
Who acts: history, most · What happens: be, contain, belong · To what, where: fifty stories, present volume
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 (history, most), 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 | 6 class | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 class | cop |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 class | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 class | det |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 class | amod |
| 6 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 belong | mark |
| 8 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 belong | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 stories | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stories | det |
| 11 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 stories | nummod |
| 12 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 most | nmod |
| 13 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 stories | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 volume | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 volume | det |
| 16 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 volume | amod |
| 17 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 contained | obl |
| 18 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 class | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 class | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | history | to this last class | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | contain | participle | the fifty stories not said here | the present volume | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in volume=Location | ||||
| 3 | belong | present | most of the fifty stories | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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