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	where	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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