Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 37
It is not a large mon-u-ment, but it is one that speaks of the noble deed which made Grace Darling famous.
Who acts: ment, noble deed · What happens: not be, be, speak, make · To what, where: large mon u ment, one, Grace · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (ment, noble deed), 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 ment | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ment | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 ment | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 ment | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ment | amod |
| 6 | mon | mon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ment | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 mon | punct |
| 8 | u | u | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ment | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 u | punct |
| 10 | ment | ment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 one | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 one | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | cop |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 ment | conj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 speaks | nsubj |
| 17 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | acl:relcl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 deed | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 deed | det |
| 20 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 deed | amod |
| 21 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 speaks | obl |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 made | nsubj |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 deed | acl:relcl |
| 24 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obj |
| 25 | Darling | Darling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Grace | flat |
| 26 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 made | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 ment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | ment | a large mon u ment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | ment | one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present | of the noble deed | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | past | the noble deed | Grace | famous property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset grace=Product |
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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