Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 2

It is a very old town, and is built half-way up the side of a steep hill.

Who acts: tri, old town · What happens: be, build · To what, where: old town, half way

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, old town), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 town	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 town	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 town	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 old	advmod
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 town	amod
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 built	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 built	cc
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 built	aux:pass
10	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 town	acl
11	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 way	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 half	punct
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 built	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	16 side	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 side	det
16	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 built	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 hill	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hill	det
19	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hill	amod
20	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 side	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 town	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	tri	a old town					tree rules
2	build	present · passive	a old town not said here	half way				up the side of a steep hill	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: way=Product

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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