Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 77
Louder than thunder, louder than the roar of all the guns!
Who acts: guns · What happens: roar
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 (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 | Louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 3 thunder | case |
| 3 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Louder | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 louder | punct |
| 5 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Louder | conj |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 roar | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 roar | det |
| 8 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 louder | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 guns | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 guns | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 guns | det |
| 12 | guns | gun | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 roar | nmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Louder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roar | all 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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