Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 39

One was the po-ta-to, the other was to-bac-co.

Who acts: One, other · What happens: be · To what, where: po ta

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 (One, other), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 ta	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ta	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ta	det
4	po	po	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ta	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 po	punct
6	ta	ta	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 to	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	6 ta	fixed
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 co	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 other	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 co	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 co	cop
13	to	to	ADP	_	17 co	case
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 to	punct
15	bac	bac	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 co	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 bac	punct
17	co	co	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ta	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 ta	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	One	the po ta and bac co					tree rules
2	is	past	the other					to bac co	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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