Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 2

He sat down by the door of a fine house, and wished that he was back again in the little town where he was born.

Who acts: Dick · What happens: sit down, wish, be, bear · To what, where: little town, Dick

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Kitchen.. 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 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 house	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 house	det
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 house	amod
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 door	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wished	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wished	cc
13	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 back	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 back	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 back	cop
17	back	back	ADV	_	13 wished	advmod
18	again	again	ADV	_	17 back	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 town	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 town	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 town	amod
22	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wished	obl
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 born	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 born	nsubj:pass
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 born	aux:pass
26	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 town	acl:relcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	Dick				by the door of a fine house	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by door=Location
2	wish	past	Dick not said here		the little town			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is	past	Dick			again	back property	tree rules
4	bear	past · passive		Dick				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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