Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 34
After that, Sir Walter tried sev-er-al times to send men to this country to make a set-tle-ment.
Who acts: Walter · What happens: try, send, make · To what, where: men, country, tle ment
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 (Walter), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 tried | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 that | punct |
| 4 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Walter | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 tried | nsubj |
| 6 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | sev | sev | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 er | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 sev | punct |
| 9 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 al | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 er | punct |
| 11 | al | al | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 times | amod |
| 12 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tried | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 send | mark |
| 14 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tried | xcomp |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 send | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 country | case |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 country | det |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 send | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 make | mark |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 send | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 ment | det |
| 22 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tle | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 set | punct |
| 24 | tle | tle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ment | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 tle | punct |
| 26 | ment | ment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Walter Sir | after that; time | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | send not said to happen | to-infinitive | Walter Sir not said here | men | this country | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme to country=Destination | |||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | Walter Sir not said here | a tle ment | 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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