Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 1
A-tri is the name of a little town in It-a-ly.
Who acts: tri · What happens: be · To what, where: name
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Bell of Atri.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tri), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tri | det |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 A | punct |
| 3 | tri | tri | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 name | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 name | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 name | det |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 town | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 town | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 town | amod |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 name | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 It | case |
| 12 | It | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 town | nmod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 ly | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 ly | det |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 a | punct |
| 16 | ly | ly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 name | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a tri | the name and a ly | of a little town in town | tree rules |
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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