Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 23
He had once seen a spring of clear water near this path-way.
Who acts: hawk · What happens: see · To what, where: path way
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 (hawk), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seen | aux |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 seen | advmod |
| 4 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 spring | det |
| 6 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 water | amod |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spring | nmod |
| 10 | near | near | ADP | _ | 14 way | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 way | det |
| 12 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 way | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 path | punct |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seen | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect | hawk | this path way | spring | once property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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