Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 59

One day when Smith was in the woods, some Indians came upon him, and made him their pris-on-er.

Who acts: Smith, Indians · What happens: be, come, make · To what, where: woods, pris, Smith

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 (Smith, Indians), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl:unmarked
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 woods	advmod
4	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 woods	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 woods	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 woods	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woods	det
8	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 day	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 Indians	det
11	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 made	obj
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 pris	nmod:poss
20	pris	pris	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obj
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 on	punct
22	on	on	ADP	_	20 pris	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 on	punct
24	er	er	INTJ	_	22 on	discourse
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Smith			the woods			tree rules
2	come	past	some Indians				day	upon Smith	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location
3	make	past	some Indians not said here	Indians's pris	Smith				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary pris=Product

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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