Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 31

So one locust went in and carried away a grain of corn; then another locust went in and carried away a grain of corn; then another locust went in and carried away a grain of corn."

Who acts: one locust, locust · What happens: go in, carry away · To what, where: grain

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 locust, locust), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 locust	nummod
3	locust	locust	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 carried	cc
7	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 carried	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 grain	det
10	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 carried	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 corn	case
12	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grain	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 went	advmod
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 locust	det
16	locust	locust	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 carried	parataxis
18	in	in	ADV	_	17 went	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 carried	cc
20	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 went	conj
21	away	away	ADV	_	20 carried	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 grain	det
23	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 carried	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 corn	case
25	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grain	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 went	punct
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 went	advmod
28	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	29 locust	det
29	locust	locust	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 went	nsubj
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	parataxis
31	in	in	ADV	_	30 went	advmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 carried	cc
33	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 went	conj
34	away	away	ADV	_	33 carried	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 grain	det
36	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 carried	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 corn	case
38	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 grain	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go in	past	one locust				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	carry away	past	one locust not said here	a grain of corn		away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme
3	go in	past	another locust		then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	carry away	past	another locust not said here	a grain of corn		away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme
5	go in	past	another locust		then		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	carry away	past	another locust not said here	a grain of corn		away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=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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