Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Damon and Pythias., sentence 14
Time passed, and by and by the day drew near which had been set for Pythias to die; and he had not come back.
Who acts: day, man · What happens: pass, draw, set, die, not come back
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Damon and Pythias.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, man), 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 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drew | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 drew | cc |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 drew | mark |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 drew | cc |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 drew | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drew | nsubj |
| 10 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 passed | parataxis |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 set | obl |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 set | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 set | aux:pass |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 drew | ccomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 Pythias | case |
| 17 | Pythias | pythia | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 set | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 die | mark |
| 19 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 set | xcomp |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 come | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 come | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 come | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 come | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 come | advmod |
| 25 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 drew | conj |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 come | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | draw | past | the day | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | set | past · perfect · passive | the day not said here | for Pythias | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | die | to-infinitive | the day not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | not come back | past | man | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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