Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the City., sentence 17
Poor Dick ran till he was so tired that he could run no farther.
Who acts: Poor Dick, Dick · What happens: run, be
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 (Poor Dick, Dick), 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 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Dick | amod |
| 2 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 tired | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tired | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tired | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 tired | advmod |
| 8 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ran | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 run | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 run | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 run | aux |
| 12 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tired | advcl |
| 13 | no | no | ADV | _ | 14 farther | advmod |
| 14 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 run | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Poor Dick | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Dick | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run | could | Dick | far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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