Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the City., sentence 5

Now, in the town where Dick lived, the people liked to talk about London.

Who acts: Dick, people · What happens: live, like, talk · To what, where: town

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, people), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 lived	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 town	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 town	det
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 lived	advmod
7	Dick	Dick	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lived	nsubj
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 liked	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 people	det
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 liked	nsubj
12	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lived	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 talk	mark
14	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 liked	xcomp
15	about	about	ADP	_	16 London	case
16	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 talk	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	Dick	the town	now		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location
2	like	past	the people				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	talk not said to happen	to-infinitive	the people not said here			about London	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about london=Topic

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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