Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 71
They put on their robes, and went out through the hot streets to the market place.
Who acts: judges · What happens: put, go out · To what, where: robes, hot streets
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 (judges), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 robes | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 robes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 put | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 went | compound:prt |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 streets | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 streets | det |
| 12 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 streets | amod |
| 13 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 went | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 16 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 place | compound |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | judges = judge | judges's robes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on robe=Destination | ||||
| 2 | go out | past | judges = judge not said here | the hot streets | to the market place | vn interact-36.6 «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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