Fifty Famous Stories Retold, George Washington and His Hatchet., sentence 13

I chopped the tree down with my hatchet."

Who acts: I · What happens: chop down · To what, where: tree

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, George Washington and His Hatchet.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 chopped	nsubj
2	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chopped	obj
5	down	down	ADV	_	2 chopped	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 hatchet	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hatchet	nmod:poss
8	hatchet	hatchet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chopped	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 chopped	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 chopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop down	past	I	the tree				with my hatchet; down property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tree=Patient with hatchet=Instrument

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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