Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 29
But a swarm of locusts came over the land and saw where the grain had been put.
Who acts: swarm · What happens: come, see, put · To what, where: land, grain · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (swarm), 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 | _ | 6 came | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 swarm | det |
| 3 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 locusts | case |
| 5 | locusts | locust | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 swarm | nmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 land | det |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 put | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 grain | det |
| 14 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 put | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 put | aux:pass |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 saw | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a swarm of locusts | the land | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over land=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | a swarm of locusts not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | put | past · perfect · passive | the grain | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
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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