Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 26
At last, to his joy, he saw some water tric-kling down over the edge of a rock.
Who acts: hawk · What happens: see, kl down, joy · To what, where: water, last joy, edge
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 6 joy | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 joy | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 joy | punct |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 joy | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 joy | nmod:poss |
| 6 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 joy | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 12 | tric | tric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 saw | xcomp |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 tric | punct |
| 14 | kling | kl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 saw | advcl |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 kling | advmod |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 edge | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 edge | det |
| 18 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kling | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 rock | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 rock | det |
| 21 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 edge | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | hawk | some water | hawk's last joy | tric property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | kl down | gerund | hawk not said here | the edge of a rock | down property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | joy | hawk | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=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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