Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 17
He was an old man, and he knew the force of the mighty waves.
Who acts: father · What happens: be, know · To what, where: old man, force
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 (father), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 man | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 knew | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 knew | nsubj |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 force | det |
| 11 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knew | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 waves | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 waves | det |
| 14 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 waves | amod |
| 15 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 force | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | father | a old man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | past | father | the force of the mighty waves | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer force=Stimulus |
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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