Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 51
The flames were almost all around him now; but he would not stir from his post.
Who acts: flames · What happens: be, not stir · To what, where: post
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 (flames), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 flames | det |
| 2 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stir | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 him | cop |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 all | advmod |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 him | advmod |
| 6 | around | around | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 flames | nmod |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 him | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 stir | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 stir | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stir | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 stir | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 stir | advmod |
| 14 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 post | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 post | nmod:poss |
| 17 | post | post | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stir | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 stir | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | now | around son; all property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not stir | would | the flames | son's post | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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