Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 66

He thought only of the poor dead bird lying on the ground below him.

Who acts: thirst, poor dead bird · What happens: think, lie · To what, where: ground

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 (thirst, poor dead bird), 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 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	8 bird	advmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 bird	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bird	amod
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bird	amod
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
9	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 bird	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 ground	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lying	obl
13	below	below	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 lying	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	thirst						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lie	gerund	the poor dead bird not said here			the ground		below thirst	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location

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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