Fifty Famous Stories Retold, III. the Venture., sentence 4
Every one had something to send,--every one but Dick; and as he had neither money nor goods, he staid in the kitchen, and did not come in with the rest.
Who acts: one, Dick · What happens: have, send, not come in · To what, where: something, money
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 (one, 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 send | mark |
| 6 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 something | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 one | punct |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 something | appos |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 Dick | cc |
| 12 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 one | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 had | cc |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 had | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 18 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 19 money | cc:preconj |
| 19 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 20 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 21 goods | cc |
| 21 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 19 money | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 staid | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 staid | nsubj |
| 24 | staid | staid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 had | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 kitchen | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 kitchen | det |
| 27 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 staid | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 come | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 come | cc |
| 30 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 come | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 come | advmod |
| 32 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 33 | in | in | ADV | _ | 32 come | advmod |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 rest | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 rest | det |
| 36 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 come | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | every one | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 2 | send | to-infinitive | every one not said here | something not said here | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Dick | money nor goods | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not come in | past · do-support | with the rest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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