Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 32
And the lord mayor was there, and the great judges, and the sher-iffs, and many rich mer-chants; and everybody was very happy.
Who acts: lord mayor, great judges · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord mayor, great judges), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 there | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mayor | det |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mayor | compound |
| 4 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 there | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 there | cop |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 happy | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 happy | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 judges | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 judges | amod |
| 11 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 happy | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 iffs | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 iffs | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 iffs | det |
| 15 | sher | sher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 iffs | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 sher | punct |
| 17 | iffs | iff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 judges | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 chants | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 chants | cc |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 chants | amod |
| 21 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 chants | amod |
| 22 | mer | mer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 chants | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 mer | punct |
| 24 | chants | chant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 iffs | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 happy | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 happy | cc |
| 27 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 30 happy | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 happy | cop |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 happy | advmod |
| 30 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 there | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the lord mayor | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the great judges the sher iffs and many rich mer chants | happy property | tree rules |
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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