Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 46
The man saw the smoke curling over his master's head, and he thought that he was on fire.
Who acts: man, smoke · What happens: see, curl, think, be · To what, where: smoke, head, fire · 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 (man, smoke), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 smoke | det |
| 5 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | curling | curl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 smoke | acl |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 master | nmod:poss |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 master | case |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 curling | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thought | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 fire | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fire | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fire | cop |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 fire | case |
| 20 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the man | the smoke | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smoke=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | curl | gerund | the smoke not said here | man's master's head | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Destination | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | man | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | man | fire | 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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