Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 55

Not a man nor child was there, for the heat of the sun had driven them all indoors.

Who acts: man, sun · What happens: not be, drive, heat · To what, where: heat

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, sun), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 there	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 there	nsubj
4	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	5 child	cc
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	conj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 there	cop
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 driven	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 there	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 heat	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 heat	det
11	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 driven	nsubj:pass
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 sun	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sun	det
14	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 heat	nmod
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 driven	aux
16	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 driven	obj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 them	nmod:unmarked
19	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	16 driven	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 driven	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	a man nor child		there property	tree rules
2	drive	past · perfect · passive		the heat of the sun	indoors property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme they=Destination
3	heat		the sun			nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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