Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Arnold Winkelried., sentence 31
The soldiers forgot to stay in their places.
Who acts: soldiers · What happens: forget, not stay · To what, where: places
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 (soldiers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 soldiers | det |
| 2 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 forgot | nsubj |
| 3 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 stay | mark |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 forgot | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 places | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 places | nmod:poss |
| 8 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stay | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | the soldiers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not stay | to-infinitive | the soldiers not said here | soldiers's places | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in place=Location |
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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