Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 107
Every day he watched Pic-cio-la, as he had named the plant.
Who acts: Char · What happens: watch, name · To what, where: Pic, Char
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Char), 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 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 watched | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 watched | nsubj |
| 4 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Pic | Pic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 watched | obj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Pic | punct |
| 7 | cio | cio | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 la | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 cio | punct |
| 9 | la | la | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 watched | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 named | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 named | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 named | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 named | aux |
| 14 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 watched | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 plant | det |
| 16 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 named | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | Char | Pic | day | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent pic=Theme la=Attribute | |||
| 2 | name | past · perfect · passive | Char | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme plant=Attribute |
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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