Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 59
With that he began to climb the steep bank to the place from which the water trickled.
Who acts: Genghis, water · What happens: begin, climb, trickle · To what, where: steep bank, place
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 (Genghis, water), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 began | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 began | nsubj |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 climb | mark |
| 6 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 began | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bank | det |
| 8 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bank | amod |
| 9 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 climb | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 climb | obl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 trickled | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 trickled | nsubj |
| 17 | trickled | trickle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 place | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Genghis | with that | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | climb | to-infinitive | Genghis not said here | the steep bank | to the place result | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient bank=Extent to place=Result | |||
| 3 | trickle | participle | the water | the place | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from which=Source |
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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