Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Guest., sentence 1
Among the soldiers of King Philip there was a poor man who had done some brave deeds.
Who acts: poor man · What happens: be, do · To what, where: soldiers, brave deeds
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Ungrateful Guest.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 soldiers | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soldiers | det |
| 3 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 was | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Philip | case |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Philip | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Philip | Philip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 soldiers | nmod |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | nsubj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 done | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 man | acl:relcl |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 deeds | det |
| 16 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 deeds | amod |
| 17 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 done | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a poor man | the soldiers of Philip King; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among soldier=Location | ||||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | a poor man | some brave deeds | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality |
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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