Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 35

But those whom he sent found only great forests, and wild beasts, and sav-age In-di-ans.

Who acts: Sir · What happens: send, find · To what, where: found great forests

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 (Sir), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 whom	cc
2	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 whom	nsubj
3	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sent	nsubj
5	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 whom	acl:relcl
6	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 forests	amod
7	only	only	ADV	_	9 forests	advmod
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 forests	amod
9	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sent	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 beasts	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 beasts	cc
12	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 beasts	amod
13	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 forests	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 age	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 age	cc
16	sav	sav	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 age	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 sav	punct
18	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obl
19	In	in	ADP	_	23 ans	case
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 In	punct
21	di	di	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ans	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 di	punct
23	ans	an	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 age	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 whom	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	Sir	found great forests and wild beasts			sav age in di ans		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Theme
2	find	participle							vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/20/35/