Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 12

Then he called them around him, and all sat down to-geth-er in the pleasant shade.

Who acts: king · What happens: call, sit down · To what, where: children, pleasant shade · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Kingdoms.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 called	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	obj
5	around	around	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sat	cc
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 sat	advmod
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 sat	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	16 er	case
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 to	punct
14	geth	geth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 er	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 geth	punct
16	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 shade	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shade	det
19	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 shade	amod
20	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	king	children = child			then	around Frederick	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	sit down	past	king not said here			the pleasant shade		to geth er	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shade=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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