Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 40
In his youth he had ridden through many lands, and he had fought in many a battle.
Who acts: rope · What happens: ride, fight · To what, where: youth, many battle
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 (rope), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 youth | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 youth | nmod:poss |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ridden | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ridden | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ridden | aux |
| 6 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 lands | case |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lands | amod |
| 9 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ridden | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fought | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fought | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fought | aux |
| 14 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 ridden | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 battle | case |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 battle | amod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 battle | det |
| 18 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fought | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ridden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past · perfect | rope | rope's youth | through many lands | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through land=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | fight | past · perfect | rope | a many battle | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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