Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sword of Damocles., sentence 15
There were costly wines, and beautiful flowers, and rare perfumes, and de-light-ful music.
Who acts: costly wines · What happens: be · To what, where: light ful music
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sword of Damocles.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (costly wines), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wines | amod |
| 4 | wines | wine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flowers | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 flowers | cc |
| 7 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flowers | amod |
| 8 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wines | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 perfumes | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 perfumes | cc |
| 11 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 perfumes | amod |
| 12 | perfumes | perfume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 music | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 music | cc |
| 15 | de | de | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 light | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 de | punct |
| 17 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 music | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 light | punct |
| 19 | ful | ful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 music | amod |
| 20 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 were | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | costly wines and beautiful flowers | light ful music | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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