Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Cornelia's Jewels., sentence 13

Her arms and feet were bare, as was the custom in those days; and no rings nor chains glit-tered about her hands and neck.

Who acts: arms, rings · What happens: be, ter

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 (arms, rings), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 arms	nmod:poss
2	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bare	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 feet	cc
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 arms	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bare	cop
6	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 custom	punct
8	as	as	ADP	_	11 custom	case
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 custom	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 custom	det
11	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bare	appos
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 days	case
13	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 days	det
14	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 custom	nmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 tered	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tered	cc
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 rings	det
18	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 tered	nsubj
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	20 chains	cc
20	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 rings	conj
21	glit	glit	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 tered	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 glit	punct
23	tered	ter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bare	conj
24	about	about	ADP	_	26 hands	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hands	nmod:poss
26	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 tered	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 neck	cc
28	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hands	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	walk's arms and feet		bare property	tree rules
2	is	past		day	as the custom	tree rules
3	ter	participle	no rings nor chains		about walk's hands and neck	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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