Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 44

Day after day he sat among his money bags, and planned how he might get more gold; and day after day his horse stood in his bare stall, half-starved, and shiv-er-ing with cold.

Who acts: Day, knight, horse, shiv · What happens: sit, plan, get, stand, starve, ing · To what, where: money bags, more gold, bare stall

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 (Day, knight, horse, shiv), 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	Day	Day	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sat	nsubj
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 day	case
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Day	nmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	among	among	ADP	_	9 bags	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bags	nmod:poss
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bags	compound
9	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 planned	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 planned	cc
12	planned	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 get	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 get	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 get	aux
16	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 planned	ccomp
17	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 gold	amod
18	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 get	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 stood	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 day	cc
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stood	obl:unmarked
22	after	after	ADP	_	23 day	case
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 day	nmod
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 horse	nmod:poss
25	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stood	nsubj
26	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 stall	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 stall	nmod:poss
29	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 stall	amod
30	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stood	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 starved	punct
32	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	34 starved	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	32 half	punct
34	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 stood	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 ing	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 ing	cc
37	shiv	shiv	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 ing	nsubj
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 shiv	punct
39	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 ing	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 ing	punct
41	ing	ing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stood	obl
42	with	with	ADP	_	43 cold	case
43	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 ing	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Day after day		knight's money bags			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among bag=Location
2	plan	past	Day after day not said here					vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get	might	knight	more gold				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=Stimulus
4	stand	past	knight's horse		knight's bare stall	day		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stall=Location
5	starve	participle	knight's horse not said here					tree rules
6	ing		shiv				with cold	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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