Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 38
But he found two things in this country which the people of England knew very little about.
Who acts: Sir, people · What happens: find, know · To what, where: two things, country
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, people), 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 found | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 things | nummod |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 found | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 country | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 country | det |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obl |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 knew | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 people | det |
| 11 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 England | case |
| 13 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 people | nmod |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 country | acl:relcl |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 little | advmod |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 knew | obj |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 little | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Sir | two things | this country | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | |||
| 2 | know | past | the people of England | this country | 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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