Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 37
Shout after shout greeted him as he climbed upon the bank.
Who acts: you, shout, spake · What happens: shout, greet, climb · To what, where: spake, bank
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 (you, shout, spake), 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 | Shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 greeted | mark |
| 3 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 greeted | nsubj |
| 4 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Shout | ccomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 greeted | obj |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 climbed | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 climbed | nsubj |
| 8 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 greeted | advcl |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 bank | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bank | det |
| 11 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 climbed | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shout | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | imperative | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | greet speech: greet | past | shout | spake = speak | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | climb | past | spake = speak | the bank | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon bank=Trajectory |
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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