Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 4
More than a hundred years ago there lived not far away a kind-heart-ed man who was called the Abbot of Ab-er-broth-ock.
What happens: not live, call · To what, where: kind ed man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Inchcape Rock.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 4 hundred | advmod |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 1 More | fixed |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hundred | det |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 years | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 lived | advmod |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 lived | advmod |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 away | advmod |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 lived | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 13 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 kind | punct |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ed | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 heart | punct |
| 17 | ed | ed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 man | compound |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 called | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 called | aux:pass |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 man | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Abbot | det |
| 23 | Abbot | Abbot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 called | xcomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 ock | case |
| 25 | Ab | Ab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 ock | nsubj |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Ab | punct |
| 27 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ock | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 broth | punct |
| 29 | broth | broth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ock | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 broth | punct |
| 31 | ock | ock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Abbot | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not live | past | a kind ed man | there | year | away property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | call | past · passive | a kind ed man | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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