Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 132
The rules of the prison were strict, and no stone must be moved.
Who acts: rules, prison · What happens: be, move, rule · To what, where: stone
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 (rules, prison), 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 rules | det |
| 2 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 strict | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 prison | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prison | det |
| 5 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rules | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 strict | cop |
| 7 | strict | strict | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 moved | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 moved | cc |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 stone | det |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moved | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 moved | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 moved | aux:pass |
| 14 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 strict | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 strict | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the rules of the prison | strict property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | move | must · passive | no stone | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rule | the prison | nom rule «cognition 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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