Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 4

One morning when he was home from the wars, he rode out into the woods to have a day's sport.

Who acts: daring, day · What happens: be, ride out, have, sport · To what, where: wars, woods, sport

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 (daring, day), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 morning	nummod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 rode	obl:unmarked
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 home	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 home	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 home	cop
6	home	home	ADV	_	2 morning	acl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 wars	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wars	det
9	wars	war	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 home	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 morning	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rode	nsubj
12	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 rode	compound:prt
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 woods	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 woods	det
16	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 rode	obl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 have	mark
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 rode	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 day	det
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sport	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 day	case
22	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	daring		the wars		home property	tree rules
2	ride out	past	daring		the woods	morning		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into wood=Trajectory
3	have	to-infinitive	daring not said here	a day's sport				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sport=Patient
4	sport		a day					nom sport «act intransitive»: 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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