Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Arnold Winkelried., sentence 17
What cared they for sticks and stones and hunts-men's arrows?
What happens: care, hunt · To what, where: spears, arrows
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: 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 cared | nsubj |
| 2 | cared | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cared | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 sticks | case |
| 5 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cared | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stones | cc |
| 7 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sticks | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hunts | cc |
| 9 | hunts | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 cared | conj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 men | punct |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 men | case |
| 13 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hunts | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 cared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | care | past | spears = spear | for sticks and stones | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hunt | present | men's arrows | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=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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