Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 17
Young Raleigh, when he saw who was coming, forgot about himself.
Who acts: Raleigh · What happens: see, come, forget · To what, where: Young Raleigh · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Walter Raleigh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Raleigh), 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 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Raleigh | amod |
| 2 | Raleigh | Raleigh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Raleigh | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 saw | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 coming | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 coming | aux |
| 9 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 forgot | punct |
| 11 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | conj |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 himself | case |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 forgot | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Raleigh | Young Raleigh | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | past · progressive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | forget | past | Raleigh not said here | about Raleigh | tree rules |
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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