Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Alexander and Bucephalus., sentence 23
They were said to be always together, for when one of them was seen, the other was sure to be not far away.
Who acts: other · What happens: say, be, see, not be · To what, where: friends, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Alexander and Bucephalus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | aux:pass |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 together | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 together | cop |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 together | advmod |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seen | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 seen | mark |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 seen | mark |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 one | nmod |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux:pass |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sure | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 other | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sure | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sure | cop |
| 20 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 seen | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 away | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 away | cop |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 away | advmod |
| 24 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 away | advmod |
| 25 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 sure | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · passive | friends = friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | always, together property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | past · passive | one of friends | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the other | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not is | to-infinitive | the other not said here | away, far property | tree rules |
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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