Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 43
He thought that he would do the same, and he carried some of the leaves to England.
Who acts: Sir · What happens: think, do, carry · To what, where: same, some, England · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 same | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 do | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 carried | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carried | nsubj |
| 12 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | parataxis |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 carried | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 leaves | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 leaves | det |
| 16 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 some | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 England | case |
| 18 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 carried | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Sir | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | would | Sir | the same | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | Sir | some | England | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent some=Theme to england=Destination |
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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