Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 34
They could not un-der-stand what it all meant.
Who acts: people, head · What happens: not un-der-stand, mean
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Androclus and the Lion.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, head), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 un-der-stand | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 un-der-stand | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 un-der-stand | advmod |
| 4 | un-der-stand | un-der-stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 meant | obj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 meant | nsubj |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 meant | advmod |
| 8 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 un-der-stand | ccomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 un-der-stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not un-der-stand | could | people | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mean | past | head | all property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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