Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 29

But there was not a rope to be found in all Atri.

What happens: not be, find · To what, where: rope, Atri

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: 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 rope	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rope	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 rope	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rope	det
6	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 found	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 found	aux:pass
9	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 rope	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 Atri	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 Atri	det
12	Atri	Atri	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 found	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 rope	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past		a rope					tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive · passive				all Atri			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/25/29/