Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Cornelia's Jewels., sentence 11

Soon Cor-ne'li-a, their mother, came down the walk to speak with them.

Who acts: Cor · What happens: come down, speak · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Cor), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 came	advmod
2	Cor	Cor	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Cor	punct
4	ne'li	ne'li	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Cor	list
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 mother	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mother	det
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mother	punct
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mother	nmod:poss
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ne'li	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Cor	punct
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 walk	det
14	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 speak	mark
16	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 walk	acl
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 speak	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	past	Cor					down, soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	Cor not said here					with mother	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-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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