Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 22
The white-haired Fathers who made the laws for the city came to see him.
Who acts: white haired Fathers · What happens: make, come, see · To what, where: laws, Regulus
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: who acts (white haired Fathers), 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 | 5 Fathers | det |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Fathers | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 white | punct |
| 4 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Fathers | amod |
| 5 | Fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 came | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Fathers | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 laws | det |
| 9 | laws | law | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 made | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 city | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 city | det |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 came | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 see | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the white haired Fathers | the laws | for the city | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent law=Product for city=Asset | |||
| 2 | come | past | the white haired Fathers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the white haired Fathers not said here | Regulus | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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