Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 28
In the wet season, a swift stream of water always poured down here; but now it came only one drop at a time.
Who acts: swift stream, stream · What happens: pour down, come · To what, where: one drop
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 (swift stream, stream), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 season | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 season | det |
| 3 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 season | amod |
| 4 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 poured | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 season | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 stream | det |
| 7 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stream | amod |
| 8 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 poured | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stream | nmod |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 poured | advmod |
| 12 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 poured | advmod |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 poured | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 came | cc |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 came | advmod |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 poured | conj |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 one | advmod |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 drop | nummod |
| 22 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 time | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 time | det |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 poured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour down | past | a swift stream of water | here | season | always, down property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||
| 2 | come | past | stream | one drop | now; time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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