Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Laconic Answer., sentence 3
Some of the people in the southern part of the country were called Spar-tans, and they were noted for their simple habits and their brav-er-y.
What happens: call, note · To what, where: Some, people · 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: 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 people | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Some | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 part | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 part | det |
| 7 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 part | amod |
| 8 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 people | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 country | det |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 part | nmod |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 called | aux:pass |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | Spar | Spar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 tans | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Spar | punct |
| 16 | tans | tan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 called | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 noted | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 noted | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 noted | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 noted | aux:pass |
| 21 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 called | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 habits | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 habits | nmod:poss |
| 24 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 habits | amod |
| 25 | habits | habit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 noted | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 y | cc |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 y | nmod:poss |
| 28 | brav | brav | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 y | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 brav | punct |
| 30 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 y | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 y | punct |
| 32 | y | y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 habits | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | Some | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | note | past · passive | people | for people's simple habits and people's brav er y | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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