Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 1

It was a dark Sep-tem-ber morning.

Who acts: It · What happens: be · To what, where: dark ber morning

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Grace Darling.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It), 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	10 morning	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 morning	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 morning	det
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 morning	amod
5	Sep	sep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tem	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Sep	punct
7	tem	tem	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ber	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 tem	punct
9	ber	ber	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 morning	compound
10	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 morning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a dark ber morning					tree rules

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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