Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Laconic Answer., sentence 11

In a few days, an answer was brought back to him.

What happens: bring back · To what, where: answer, Philip

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: 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 days	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 days	det
3	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 brought	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 days	punct
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 answer	det
7	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brought	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 brought	aux:pass
9	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 brought	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 brought	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring back	past · passive		a answer	Philip		day		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination

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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