Fifty Famous Stories Retold, III. the Venture., sentence 22
So, very early in the morning on All-hal-lows Day, he started.
Who acts: Dick · What happens: start · To what, where: Day
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, III. the Venture.. 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 17 started | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 early | advmod |
| 4 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 morning | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 morning | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 morning | det |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Day | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 lows | case |
| 9 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 lows | det |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 All | punct |
| 11 | hal | hal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lows | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 hal | punct |
| 13 | lows | low | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 morning | nmod |
| 14 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 started | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Day | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 started | nsubj |
| 17 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | Dick | Day | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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