Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 27
Then he took a yellow gold piece from his pocket, and held it up so that it glit-tered in the sunlight.
Who acts: king · What happens: take, hold up, ter · To what, where: yellow gold piece, pocket, piece, sunlight
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 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 piece | det |
| 5 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 piece | amod |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 piece | compound |
| 7 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 pocket | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 10 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl | ||
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 held | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 held | cc |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 held | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 held | compound:prt |
| 16 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 tered | mark |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 so | fixed |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 tered | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | glit | glit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tered | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 glit | punct |
| 21 | tered | ter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 held | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 sunlight | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sunlight | det |
| 24 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tered | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | king | a yellow gold piece | king's pocket | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent piece=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | hold up | past | king not said here | piece | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ter | participle · passive | piece | the sunlight | 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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