Fifty Famous Stories Retold, George Washington and His Hatchet., sentence 8
It was the only tree of its kind in this country, and it cost me a great deal of money."
Who acts: tree · What happens: be, cost, deal · To what, where: only tree, great deal, me, money
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 (tree), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tree | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tree | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tree | amod |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 kind | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 kind | nmod:poss |
| 8 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tree | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 country | det |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kind | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cost | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cost | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cost | nsubj |
| 15 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tree | parataxis |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 cost | iobj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 deal | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 deal | amod |
| 19 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cost | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 money | case |
| 21 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 deal | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 cost | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | tree | the only tree | of tree's kind in this country | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cost | past | tree | a great deal of money | me | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme i=Beneficiary deal=Value | |||
| 3 | deal | money | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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