Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 76
They untied the cords from his wrists and feet, and set him free.
Who acts: riors · What happens: untie, set · To what, where: cords, king
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 untied | nsubj |
| 2 | untied | untie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cords | det |
| 4 | cords | cord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 untied | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 wrists | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wrists | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wrists | wrist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 untied | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 feet | cc |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wrists | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 set | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 set | cc |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 untied | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 set | obj |
| 14 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 set | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 untied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | untie | past | riors = rior | the cords | from king's wrists and feet | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent cord=Patient from wrist=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | set | infinitive | riors = rior not said here | king | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result |
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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