Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 5

All the story-tellers in the world were in-vit-ed to his palace; and some of them told tales that were very long indeed.

Who acts: story tellers, some, tales · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: vit ed, tales · 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 (story tellers, some, tales), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 tellers	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tellers	det
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tellers	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 story	punct
5	tellers	teller	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ed	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 world	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 world	det
8	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tellers	nmod
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 ed	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 ed	case
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 in	punct
12	vit	vit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ed	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 vit	punct
14	ed	ed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 palace	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 palace	nmod:poss
17	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ed	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 told	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 told	cc
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 told	nsubj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 some	nmod
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 ed	conj
24	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 told	obj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 long	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 long	cop
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 long	advmod
28	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tales	acl:relcl
29	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	28 long	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 ed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	all story tellers in the world		vit ed	to matter's palace	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	some	tales			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient
3	is	past	tales			indeed, long property	tree rules

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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