Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 44

Englishmen had never used tobacco before that time; and all who saw Sir Walter puff-ing away at a roll of leaves thought that it was a strange sight.

Who acts: Englishmen, Walter, tobacco · What happens: have, not use, see, ing, think, be · To what, where: used tobacco, roll, strange sight, leaves · 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 (Englishmen, Walter, tobacco), 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	Englishmen	englishman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 used	advmod
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 tobacco	amod
5	tobacco	tobacco	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	before	before	ADP	_	8 time	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saw	cc
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 saw	advmod
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
14	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Walter	nmod:desc
15	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 ing	nsubj
16	puff	puff	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ing	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 puff	punct
18	ing	ing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	ccomp
19	away	away	ADV	_	13 saw	advmod
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 roll	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 roll	det
22	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 thought	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 leaves	case
24	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 roll	nmod
25	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saw	advcl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 sight	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sight	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sight	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 sight	det
30	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 sight	amod
31	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 thought	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Englishmen	used tobacco		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tobacco=Patient
2	not use	participle						vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	past					away property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	ing		Walter Sir					tree rules
5	think speech: other	past			a roll of leaves			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	tobacco	a strange sight				tree rules
7	roll			leaves				nom roll «event transitive»: of=patient

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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