Fifty Famous Stories Retold, III. the Venture., sentence 23

He walked as far as the place called Hol-lo-way, and there he sat down on a stone, which to this day is called "Whit-ting-ton's Stone."

Who acts: Dick · What happens: walk, call, sit down · To what, where: place, stone · Speech: someone speaks here

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 walked	nsubj
2	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 walked	advmod
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 place	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 place	det
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walked	obl
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 place	acl
9	Hol	Hol	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 called	xcomp
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Hol	punct
11	lo	lo	INTJ	_	13 way	discourse
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 lo	punct
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Hol	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sat	cc
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 sat	expl
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sat	nsubj
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 walked	conj
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 sat	compound:prt
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 stone	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 stone	det
22	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 called	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 called	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 day	case
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 day	det
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 called	obl
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 called	aux:pass
29	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 stone	acl:relcl
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	35 ton	punct
31	Whit	whit	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ting	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 Whit	punct
33	ting	ting	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ton	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 ting	punct
35	ton	ton	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 called	xcomp
36	's	's	PART	_	35 ton	case
37	Stone	Stone	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 ton	appos
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	Dick				as the place; far property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call	participle		the place not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sit down	past	Dick		a stone; there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location
4	call	present · passive		a stone		day		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: which=Recipient

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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