Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 45
He tried again; and for the third time the hawk kept him from drinking.
Who acts: hawk · What happens: try, keep, drink · To what, where: water
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 | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 tried | advmod |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 kept | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kept | cc |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kept | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hawk | det |
| 11 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kept | nsubj |
| 12 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kept | obj |
| 14 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 15 drinking | mark |
| 15 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 kept | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | hawk | again | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | the hawk | water | time | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | drink | gerund | the hawk not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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