Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 58

The leaves and tendrils upon it were still fresh and green, for it had not been there long.

Who acts: leaves, justice · What happens: be, not be

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 (leaves, justice), 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 leaves	det
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fresh	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tendrils	cc
4	tendrils	tendril	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 leaves	conj
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 leaves	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fresh	cop
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 fresh	advmod
9	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 green	cc
11	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fresh	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 there	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	18 there	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 there	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 there	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 there	advmod
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 there	cop
18	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 fresh	parataxis
19	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 there	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fresh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the leaves upon justice and tendrils	still	fresh property	tree rules
2	be		the leaves upon justice and tendrils not said here			tree rules
3	not is	past · perfect	justice		long, there property	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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