Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Laconic Answer., sentence 1
Many miles beyond Rome there was a famous country which we call Greece.
Who acts: Many miles, we · What happens: be, call · To what, where: famous country · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Laconic Answer.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many miles, we), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 miles | amod |
| 2 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 country | nsubj |
| 3 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 4 Rome | case |
| 4 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 miles | nmod |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 country | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 country | det |
| 8 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 country | amod |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 call | obj |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 call | nsubj |
| 12 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 country | acl:relcl |
| 13 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 call | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 country | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Many miles beyond Rome | a famous country | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | present | we | a famous country | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme greece=Result |
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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