Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the City., sentence 18

It was growing dark, and in every street there was only dirt instead of gold.

Who acts: gold · What happens: grow, be · To what, where: dirt

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 (gold), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 growing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 growing	aux
3	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 growing	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dirt	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dirt	cc
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 street	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 street	det
9	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 was	obl
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 was	expl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dirt	cop
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 dirt	advmod
13	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 growing	obl
14	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	16 gold	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	14 instead	fixed
16	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dirt	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 growing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past · progressive	gold					dark property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past		dirt				instead gold	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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