Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 17
But one day a stran-ger from the South came into the palace.
Who acts: stran ger · What happens: come · To what, where: palace
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 (stran ger), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ger | det |
| 5 | stran | stran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ger | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 stran | punct |
| 7 | ger | ger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 South | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 South | det |
| 10 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ger | nmod |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 palace | det |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a stran ger from the South | the palace | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into palace=Initial_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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