Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Laconic Answer., sentence 4

The name of their land was La-co'ni-a, and so they were sometimes called La-cons.

Who acts: name, La co'ni · What happens: be, call, name · To what, where: La co'ni, people, land · 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 (name, La co'ni), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 name	det
2	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 co'ni	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 land	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 land	nmod:poss
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 name	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 co'ni	cop
7	La	La	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 co'ni	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 La	punct
9	co'ni	co'ni	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 a	punct
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 co'ni	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 called	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 called	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	18 called	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 called	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 called	aux:pass
17	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 called	advmod
18	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 co'ni	acl
19	La	La	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 cons	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 La	punct
21	cons	con	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 called	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 co'ni	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the name of people's land	La co'ni		tree rules
2	call	past · passive	La co'ni not said here	people	sometimes property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	name			people's land		nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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