Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 30

After search-ing for many days they found on the east side of the gran-a-ry a crev-ice that was just large enough for one locust to pass through at a time.

Who acts: locusts, crev ice · What happens: find, be, pass through · To what, where: east side

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 (locusts, crev ice), 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 ing	case
2	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ing	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 search	punct
4	ing	ing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obl
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 days	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 days	amod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ing	nmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 found	nsubj
9	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 side	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 side	det
12	east	east	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 side	amod
13	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	20 ry	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ry	det
16	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ry	nsubj
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 ry	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 ry	det
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 a	punct
20	ry	ry	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 side	nmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 ice	det
22	crev	crev	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 ice	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 crev	punct
24	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ry	appos
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 large	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 large	cop
27	just	just	ADV	_	28 large	advmod
28	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ice	acl:relcl
29	enough	enough	ADV	_	28 large	advmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 locust	case
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 locust	nummod
32	locust	locust	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 large	obl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 pass	mark
34	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 large	advcl
35	through	through	ADP	_	34 pass	compound:prt
36	at	at	ADP	_	38 time	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 time	det
38	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pass	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	locusts = locust	the east side of the ry	after search ing for many days		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	a crev ice			for one locust; enough, large property	tree rules
3	pass through	to-infinitive	a crev ice not said here		time		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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