Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 21
Many times did the bell in the market place ring out to call the judges together.
Who acts: Many times · What happens: do, r out, call · To what, where: bell, market place, judges · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Many times), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 times | amod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bell | det |
| 5 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 8 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 place | compound |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| 10 | ring | r | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 did | advcl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 ring | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 call | mark |
| 13 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ring | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 judges | det |
| 15 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 call | obj |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 call | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Many times | the bell | the market place | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bell=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | r out | gerund | Many times not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | call | to-infinitive | Many times not said here | the judges | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent judge=Recipient |
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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