Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 14
There lived in the same town a rich man who was called the Count.
What happens: live, call · To what, where: rich man, same town · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 lived | expl |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 town | amod |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 called | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 called | aux:pass |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 man | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Count | det |
| 14 | Count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a rich man | the same town; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location | ||||
| 2 | call | past · passive | a rich man | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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