Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 15
One young man invented a story that lasted three months; but at the end of that time, he could think of nothing more.
Who acts: One young man, story, man · What happens: invent, last, think · To what, where: story, end
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Endless Tale.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One young man, story, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 man | nummod |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 invented | nsubj |
| 4 | invented | invent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 invented | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 lasted | nsubj |
| 8 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 story | acl:relcl |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 months | nummod |
| 10 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lasted | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 think | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 think | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 end | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 end | det |
| 15 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 think | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 end | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 end | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 think | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 think | aux |
| 22 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 invented | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 nothing | case |
| 24 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 think | obl |
| 25 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 nothing | amod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 invented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | invent | past | One young man | a story | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Result | ||||
| 2 | last | past | a story | month | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | could | man | at the end of that time | of nothing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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