Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 28
He saw the white porch of his own home among the trees on the other side of the stream;
Who acts: dart · What happens: see · To what, where: white porch, other side
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Horatius At the Bridge.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dart), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 porch | det |
| 4 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 porch | amod |
| 5 | porch | porch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 home | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 home | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 home | amod |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 porch | nmod |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 trees | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 trees | det |
| 12 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saw | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 side | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 side | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 side | amod |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 stream | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stream | det |
| 19 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 side | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | dart | the white porch of dart's own home | the other side of the stream | among the trees | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer porch=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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