Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the City., sentence 20
When he woke up the next morning, he was very hungry; but there was not even a crust of bread for him to eat.
Who acts: Dick · What happens: wake up, be, not be, eat · To what, where: crust
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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 woke | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 woke | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 morning | det |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 morning | amod |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 woke | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 hungry | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hungry | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hungry | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 hungry | advmod |
| 12 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woke | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 crust | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 was | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 crust | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 crust | advmod |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 crust | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 crust | det |
| 20 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 woke | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 bread | case |
| 22 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 crust | nmod |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 crust | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 eat | mark |
| 26 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 crust | acl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past | Dick | morning | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Dick | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is a | past | a crust | of bread; for Dick | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | Dick not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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