Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the City., sentence 15

He ran as fast as he could, from one street to another, trying to find those that were paved with gold.

Who acts: lad · What happens: run, try, find, pave · To what, where: one street, those

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, I. the City.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 fast	advmod
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 ran	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 could	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 could	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fast	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 street	punct
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 street	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 street	nummod
11	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 another	case
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	11 street	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 trying	punct
15	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 ran	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 find	mark
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 trying	xcomp
18	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 find	obj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 paved	nsubj:pass
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 paved	aux:pass
21	paved	pave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 those	acl:relcl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 gold	case
23	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 paved	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	lad		one street to another	fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from street=Trajectory
2	try	gerund	lad not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	lad not said here	those			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic
4	pave	past · passive				with gold	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with gold=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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