Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Cornelia's Jewels., sentence 1
It was a bright morning in the old city of Rome many hundred years ago.
Who acts: It · What happens: be · To what, where: bright morning, old city
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Cornelia's Jewels.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 morning | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 morning | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 morning | det |
| 4 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 morning | amod |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 city | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 city | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 city | amod |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 morning | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 years | case |
| 11 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 years | nsubj |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 years | amod |
| 13 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 city | nmod |
| 15 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 14 years | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 morning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | It | a bright morning | the old city of many hundred years | 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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