Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 35
"How much longer will the locusts be going in and carrying away corn?"
Who acts: locusts · What happens: go in, carry away · To what, where: corn
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), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 much | advmod |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 longer | advmod |
| 4 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 going | advmod |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 going | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 locusts | det |
| 7 | locusts | locust | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 going | nsubj |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 going | aux |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADV | _ | 9 going | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 carrying | cc |
| 12 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 going | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 carrying | advmod |
| 14 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carrying | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in in a quote | future · progressive | the locusts | long property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry away in a quote | gerund | the locusts not said here | corn | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=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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