Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the City., sentence 7

They said that all the folks who lived in London were fine gen-tle-men and ladies; that there was singing and music there all day long; that nobody was ever hungry there, and nobody had to work; and that the streets were all paved with gold.

Who acts: people, folks, nobody · What happens: say, live, be, sing, have, work · To what, where: London, fine tle men, streets · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (people, folks, nobody), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 men	mark
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 folks	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 folks	det
6	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 men	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lived	nsubj
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 folks	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 London	case
10	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 men	cop
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 men	amod
13	gen	gen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tle	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 gen	punct
15	tle	tle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 men	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 tle	punct
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	ccomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ladies	cc
19	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 men	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 singing	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 was	mark
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 was	expl
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 singing	aux
24	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 said	advcl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 music	cc
26	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 singing	conj
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 singing	advmod
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 day	det
29	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 singing	obl:unmarked
30	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 day	advmod
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 hungry	punct
32	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 nobody	det
33	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	36 hungry	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 hungry	cop
35	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	36 hungry	advmod
36	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	parataxis
37	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 hungry	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 had	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 had	cc
40	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	41 had	nsubj
41	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 work	mark
43	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 had	xcomp
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 paved	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 paved	cc
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 paved	mark
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 streets	det
48	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 paved	nsubj:pass
49	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 paved	aux:pass
50	all	all	ADV	_	51 paved	advmod
51	paved	pave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 said	conj
52	with	with	ADP	_	53 gold	case
53	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 paved	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	people					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	live	past	all folks		London			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in london=Location
3	is a	past	all folks	fine tle men and ladies				tree rules
4	sing speech: express	past · progressive	people not said here		there	day		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	nobody		there	ever	hungry property	tree rules
6	have	past	nobody					tree rules
7	work	to-infinitive	nobody not said here					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	pave	past · passive		the streets			with gold; all property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with gold=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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