Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 18
So while the rest of the party took the nearest way, he went by a longer road through a valley between two mountains.
Who acts: rest · What happens: take, go · To what, where: nearest way, valley
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 (rest), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 took | advmod |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 took | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rest | det |
| 4 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 party | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 party | det |
| 7 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rest | nmod |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 10 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 way | amod |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 road | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 road | det |
| 17 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 road | amod |
| 18 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 valley | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 valley | det |
| 21 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 22 | between | between | ADP | _ | 24 mountains | case |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 mountains | nummod |
| 24 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the rest of the party | the nearest way | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | rest | a valley | by a longer road; between two mountains | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through valley=Initial_Location |
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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