Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Guest., sentence 16
And so the soldier made haste to drive the farmer from his house and home.
What happens: make, drive · To what, where: farmer, house
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 haste | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 haste | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 soldier | det |
| 4 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 haste | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 haste | amod |
| 6 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 drive | mark |
| 8 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 haste | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 farmer | det |
| 10 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drive | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 house | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 house | nmod:poss |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drive | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 home | cc |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 house | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 haste | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 2 | drive | to-infinitive | the farmer | farmer's house and home | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent farmer=Theme from house=Trajectory |
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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