Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the City., sentence 21
He forgot all about the golden pavements, and thought only of food.
Who acts: Dick · What happens: forget, think · To what, where: food
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 forgot | nsubj |
| 2 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 2 forgot | advmod |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 pavements | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pavements | det |
| 6 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pavements | amod |
| 7 | pavements | pavement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 forgot | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 forgot | conj |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 food | advmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 food | case |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past | Dick | about the golden pavements; all property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Dick not said here | food | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot food=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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