Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 18
If any one of you is wronged at any time, he may come and ring the bell; and then the judges shall come together at once, and hear his case, and give him justice.
Who acts: King, judges · What happens: wrong, come, ring, come together, hear, give · To what, where: one, bell, case, justice, King
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 (King, judges), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 wronged | mark |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 wronged | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 one | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 wronged | aux:pass |
| 7 | wronged | wrong | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 come | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wronged | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wronged | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ring | cc |
| 16 | ring | ring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 come | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bell | det |
| 18 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ring | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 come | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 come | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 judges | det |
| 23 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 come | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 come | aux |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 come | parataxis |
| 26 | together | together | ADV | _ | 25 come | advmod |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 once | case |
| 28 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 25 come | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hear | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 hear | cc |
| 31 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 come | conj |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 case | nmod:poss |
| 33 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hear | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 give | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 give | cc |
| 36 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 come | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 give | iobj |
| 38 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 give | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrong a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | any one of you | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | may | King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ring | infinitive | King not said here | the bell | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come together | shall | the judges | then | together property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location | |||
| 5 | hear | infinitive | the judges not said here | King's case | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer case=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | give | infinitive | the judges not said here | justice | King | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient justice=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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