Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 57
He saw the grape-vine rope that hung from the bell of justice.
Who acts: beast, vine rope · What happens: see, hang · To what, where: vine rope, bell
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 (beast, vine 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rope | det |
| 4 | grape | grape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 vine | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 grape | punct |
| 6 | vine | vine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rope | compound |
| 7 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 hung | nsubj |
| 9 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rope | acl:relcl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 bell | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bell | det |
| 12 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hung | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 justice | case |
| 14 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bell | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | beast | the vine rope | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rope=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hang | past | the vine rope | the bell of justice | vn assuming_position-50 «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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