Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 53

The boys threw stones at him, the dogs barked at him, and in all the world there was no one to pity him.

Who acts: boys, dogs · What happens: throw, bark, be, pity · To what, where: stones, one, world, Lame

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 (boys, dogs), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boys	det
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 threw	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 threw	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 barked	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dogs	det
9	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 barked	nsubj
10	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 threw	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 barked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 one	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 one	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 world	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 world	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 world	det
18	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 one	obl
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 was	expl
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 one	cop
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 pity	mark
24	pity	pity	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 one	acl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pity	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw	past	the boys	stones		at Lame	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at he=Destination
2	bark	past	the dogs			at Lame	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at he=Stimulus
3	is a	past	the boys not said here	no one	all world		tree rules
4	pity	to-infinitive	the boys not said here	Lame			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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