Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 51

After that a great many men learned to smoke.

Who acts: great many men · What happens: learn, smoke

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 (great many men), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 learned	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 men	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 men	amod
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 men	amod
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 learned	nsubj
7	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 smoke	mark
9	smoke	smoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 learned	xcomp
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past	a great many men				after that		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	smoke	to-infinitive	a great many men not said here						vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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