Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 4

When Raleigh was a young man, he was one day walking along a street in London.

Who acts: Raleigh, one day · What happens: be, walk · To what, where: young man, one day, street

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 (Raleigh, one day), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 man	advmod
2	Raleigh	Raleigh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 man	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 day	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 day	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 day	cop
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 day	nummod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	obl:unmarked
12	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 day	acl
13	along	along	ADP	_	15 street	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 street	det
15	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 walking	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 London	case
17	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 street	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	Raleigh	a young man		tree rules
2	is a	past	Raleigh	one day		tree rules
3	walk	gerund	one day not said here		a street in London	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along street=Trajectory

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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