Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Arnold Winkelried., sentence 14
Others tried clubs and stones, but with no better luck.
Who acts: Others · What happens: try · To what, where: clubs
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Arnold Winkelried.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Others), 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 | Others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tried | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stones | cc |
| 5 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 clubs | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 luck | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 luck | cc |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 luck | case |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 luck | det |
| 10 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 luck | amod |
| 11 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tried | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | Others | clubs and stones | with no better luck | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent club=Patient with luck=Theme |
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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