Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 56
He came to this country many years ago, when there were great woods everywhere, and many wild beasts and Indians.
Who acts: man · What happens: come, be · To what, where: many wild beasts, country
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), 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 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 country | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 country | det |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 years | amod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 were | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 were | advmod |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 were | expl |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 everywhere | cop |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woods | amod |
| 14 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 were | nsubj |
| 15 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 2 came | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 beasts | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 beasts | cc |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 beasts | amod |
| 19 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 beasts | amod |
| 20 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 came | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Indians | cc |
| 22 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 beasts | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | man | many wild beasts and Indians | this country | ago property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | is | past | everywhere property | 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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