Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 39

Now, on the hill-side above the village, there lived a man who had once been a brave knight.

Who acts: man · What happens: live, have, be · To what, where: man, hill side, brave knight

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 (man), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 lived	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	7 side	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 side	det
5	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 side	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 hill	punct
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lived	obl
8	above	above	ADP	_	10 village	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 village	det
10	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 side	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 side	punct
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 lived	expl
13	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lived	obj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 man	acl:relcl
18	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 knight	advmod
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 knight	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 knight	det
21	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 knight	amod
22	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 had	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a man	the hill side above the village; there	now		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
2	have	past	a man					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a	participle		a brave knight			once property	tree rules

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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