Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 52
Lame and sick, he strolled along the dusty roads, glad to find a blade of grass or a thistle.
Who acts: Lame · What happens: stroll, find · To what, where: dusty roads, blade
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 (Lame), 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 | Lame | lame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sick | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sick | cc |
| 3 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 strolled | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 strolled | nsubj |
| 6 | strolled | stroll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sick | conj |
| 7 | along | along | ADP | _ | 10 roads | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 roads | det |
| 9 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 roads | amod |
| 10 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 strolled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 glad | punct |
| 12 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 roads | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 find | mark |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 glad | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 blade | det |
| 16 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 grass | case |
| 18 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blade | nmod |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 thistle | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 thistle | det |
| 21 | thistle | thistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blade | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stroll | participle | Lame | the dusty roads | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | Lame not said here | a blade of grass or a thistle | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blade=Topic |
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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