Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 10
They expected to carry much game home in the evening.
Who acts: woods · What happens: expect, carry · To what, where: much game
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The King and His Hawk.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woods), 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 | 2 expected | nsubj |
| 2 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 carry | mark |
| 4 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 expected | xcomp |
| 5 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 game | amod |
| 6 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carry | obj |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 carry | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 evening | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 evening | det |
| 10 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carry | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 expected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | past | woods = wood | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | carry not said to happen | to-infinitive | woods = wood not said here | much game | evening | home property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme |
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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