Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 11

On the king's wrist sat his favorite hawk; for in those days hawks were trained to hunt.

Who acts: hawks · What happens: sit, train, hunt · To what, where: favorite hawk, wrist, hawks

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 (hawks), 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	On	on	ADP	_	5 wrist	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wrist	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 king	case
5	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obl
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hawk	nmod:poss
8	favorite	favorite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hawk	amod
9	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 trained	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 days	case
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 days	case
13	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 days	det
14	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 trained	obl
15	hawks	hawk	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 trained	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 trained	aux:pass
17	trained	train	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 sat	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 hunt	mark
19	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 trained	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	sit	past		daring's favorite hawk	the king's wrist		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent hawk=Theme on wrist=Location
2	train	past · passive		hawks		day	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
3	hunt	to-infinitive	hawks not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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