Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 39
One could hear nothing but the roar of the big guns.
Who acts: One, big guns · What happens: hear, roar · To what, where: nothing
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 (One, big guns), 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 | One | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | aux |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 hear | obj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 roar | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 roar | det |
| 7 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 guns | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 guns | det |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 guns | amod |
| 11 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 roar | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | could | One | nothing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | roar | the big guns | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=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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