Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 36
The slender vine, with its leaves and ten-drils still upon it, trailed to the ground.
Who acts: slender vine · What happens: trail · To what, where: ground
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 (slender vine), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg18442:734): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 vine | det |
| 2 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 vine | amod |
| 3 | vine | vine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 trailed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 leaves | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 leaves | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 7 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 trailed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drils | cc |
| 9 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 drils | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ten | punct |
| 11 | drils | dril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 leaves | conj |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 it | advmod |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 leaves | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 trailed | punct |
| 16 | trailed | trail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 ground | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ground | det |
| 19 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 trailed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 trailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trail | past | the slender vine | the ground | with vine's leaves upon garden and ten drils | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent to ground=Trajectory |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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