Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 32
Day after day, week after week, the man kept on saying, "Then another locust went in and carried away a grain of corn."
Who acts: man, Day, locust · What happens: keep, say, go in, carry away · To what, where: Day, 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 (man, Day, 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 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 kept | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Day | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 week | punct |
| 5 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Day | parataxis |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 week | case |
| 7 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 week | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Day | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kept | nsubj |
| 11 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 13 saying | mark |
| 13 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 kept | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 16 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 went | advmod |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 locust | det |
| 18 | locust | locust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 saying | ccomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 carried | cc |
| 22 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 went | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 carried | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 grain | det |
| 25 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carried | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 corn | case |
| 27 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grain | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 kept | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the man | Day after day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | Day after day not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in in a quote | past | another locust | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry away in a quote | 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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