Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Doctor Goldsmith., sentence 1

There was once a kind man whose name was Oliver Gold-smith.

Who acts: kind man, name, Oliver Gold smith · What happens: be, name · To what, where: Oliver Gold smith

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Doctor Goldsmith.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind man, name, Oliver Gold smith), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	8 name	nmod:poss
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 smith	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 smith	cop
10	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 smith	compound
11	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 smith	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Gold	punct
13	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	acl:relcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a kind man		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	Oliver Gold smith's name	Oliver Gold smith			tree rules
3	name		Oliver Gold smith				nom name «communication transitive»: 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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