Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 32
How could the judges know about it, if the in-jured one could not reach the old rope?
Who acts: judges, jured one · What happens: know, not reach · To what, where: old rope
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 (judges, jured one), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 know | advmod |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 judges | det |
| 4 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 reach | advcl |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 know | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 reach | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 one | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 in | punct |
| 13 | jured | jured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 one | amod |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reach | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 reach | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 reach | advmod |
| 17 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 rope | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 rope | amod |
| 20 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reach | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | could | the judges | about child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer about it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not reach | could | the jured one | the old rope | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent rope=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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