Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 75
Then he spoke to some of his war-riors, and they lifted Smith from the ground.
Who acts: king, riors · What happens: speak, lift · To what, where: Smith, ground · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king, riors), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 some | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 spoke | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 riors | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 riors | nmod:poss |
| 8 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 riors | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 war | punct |
| 10 | riors | rior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 some | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lifted | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lifted | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lifted | nsubj |
| 14 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spoke | conj |
| 15 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 lifted | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 ground | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ground | det |
| 18 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lifted | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | king | then | to some | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to some=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | lift | past | riors = rior | Smith | the ground | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent smith=Theme from ground=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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