Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 7
Just at that time the master of the house, whose name was Mr. Fitz-war'ren, came home to dinner.
Who acts: master, Fitz war'ren, house · What happens: be, come, name · To what, where: Fitz war'ren, dinner
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 (master, Fitz war'ren, house), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 time | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 war'ren | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 master | det |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 war'ren | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 master | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 name | punct |
| 11 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 12 name | nmod:poss |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | conj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 war'ren | cop |
| 14 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Fitz | nmod:desc |
| 15 | Fitz | Fitz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 war'ren | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Fitz | punct |
| 17 | war'ren | war'ren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 war'ren | punct |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 dinner | case |
| 22 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the master of the house and the house and name's name | Fitz war'ren | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come | past | Fitz war'ren | dinner | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dinner=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | name | the house and the house and name's name | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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