Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 68
She ran and threw herself between Smith and the up-lift-ed clubs.
Who acts: Po · What happens: run, throw · To what, where: Po
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 (Po), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 threw | cc |
| 4 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 5 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 threw | obj |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 Smith | case |
| 7 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 threw | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 clubs | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 clubs | det |
| 10 | up | up | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lift | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 up | punct |
| 12 | lift | lift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ed | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 lift | punct |
| 14 | ed | ed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 clubs | compound |
| 15 | clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ran | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Po | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | throw | past | Po not said here | Po | between Smith | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme between smith=Destination |
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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