Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 14
All day long Gen-ghis Khan and his huntsmen rode through the woods.
Who acts: long Gen ghis · What happens: ride · To what, where: woods
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 (long Gen ghis), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 long | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ghis | amod |
| 4 | Gen | Gen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ghis | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Gen | punct |
| 6 | ghis | ghi | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rode | nsubj |
| 7 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 rode | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 huntsmen | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 huntsmen | nmod:poss |
| 10 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Khan | conj |
| 11 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 woods | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woods | det |
| 14 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rode | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | long Gen ghis | the woods | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=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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