Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Arnold Winkelried., sentence 19
Then a poor man, whose name was Ar-nold Wink'el-ried, stepped out.
Who acts: name, Ar nold · What happens: be, ri, step out, name · To what, where: Ar nold
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 (name, Ar nold), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 man | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nold | punct |
| 6 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 7 name | nmod:poss |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nold | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 nold | cop |
| 9 | Ar | ar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nold | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ar | punct |
| 11 | nold | nold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 man | appos |
| 12 | Wink'el | Wink'el | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 nold | appos |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Wink'el | punct |
| 14 | ried | ri | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 nold | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 stepped | punct |
| 16 | stepped | step | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 ried | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 stepped | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Ar nold's name | Ar nold | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ri | participle | Ar nold not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | step out | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | name | Ar nold | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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