Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Doctor Goldsmith., sentence 6
He was some-times called Doctor Goldsmith; for he had studied to be a phy-si-cian.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, call, study · To what, where: times, si cian · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man), 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 | 5 times | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 times | cop |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 times | det |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 some | punct |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 times | acl |
| 7 | Doctor | Doctor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 called | xcomp |
| 8 | Goldsmith | Goldsmith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Doctor | flat |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 studied | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 studied | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 studied | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 studied | aux |
| 13 | studied | study | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 times | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 cian | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 cian | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 cian | det |
| 17 | phy | phy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 si | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 phy | punct |
| 19 | si | si | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cian | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 si | punct |
| 21 | cian | cian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 studied | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 times | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | man | some times | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | some times not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | study | past · perfect | man | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | man not said here | a si cian | tree rules |
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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