Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 32

Sir Walter Raleigh and Sir Humphrey Gilbert about whom I have already told you, were half-broth-ers.

Who acts: Gilbert · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: I, you, half broth · 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 (Gilbert), 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	2 Walter	nmod:desc
2	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Gilbert	nmod:poss
3	Raleigh	Raleigh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Walter	flat
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Sir	cc
5	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Walter	conj
6	Humphrey	Humphrey	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Sir	flat
7	Gilbert	gilbert	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 broth	nsubj
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 whom	case
9	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 Gilbert	nmod
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj:pass
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 told	aux
12	already	already	ADV	_	13 told	advmod
13	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 whom	acl:relcl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Gilbert	punct
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 broth	cop
17	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	19 broth	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 half	punct
19	broth	broth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 ers	punct
21	ers	er	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 broth	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 broth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		I	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=Topic
2	is a	past	Walter Sir and Sir's Gilbert about half broth and ers	half broth and ers					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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