Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 55

There was once a very brave man whose name was John Smith.

Who acts: brave man, name, John · What happens: be, name · To what, where: John

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 (brave man, name, John), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 brave	advmod
6	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
8	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	9 name	nmod:poss
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 John	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 John	cop
11	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 man	parataxis
12	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 John	flat
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a brave man		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	John's name	John			tree rules
3	name		John				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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