Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 1
On the other side of the sea from Rome there was once a great city named Car-thage.
What happens: be, name · To what, where: other side, great city
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of Regulus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 side | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 side | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 side | amod |
| 4 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 side | nmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Rome | case |
| 9 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sea | nmod |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 was | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 city | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 city | amod |
| 15 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 once | nsubj |
| 16 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 city | acl |
| 17 | Car | Car | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 named | xcomp |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 thage | punct |
| 19 | thage | thage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Car | appos |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the other side of the sea from Rome; there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location | ||||
| 2 | name | participle | a great city not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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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