Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Doctor Goldsmith., sentence 22
And on the top were the di-rec-tions:--
Who acts: rec tions · What happens: be · To what, where: top
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 (rec tions), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 were | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 top | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 top | det |
| 4 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 were | obl |
| 5 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tions | det |
| 7 | di | di | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rec | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 di | punct |
| 9 | rec | rec | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tions | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 rec | punct |
| 11 | tions | tion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 were | nsubj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 were | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 were | nsubj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the rec tions | the top | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=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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