Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 158
A young man named Wil-helm was staying at an inn in the city.
Who acts: young man · What happens: name, stay · To what, where: Wil helm, inn
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 (young man), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 staying | nsubj |
| 4 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 man | acl |
| 5 | Wil | Wil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 helm | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Wil | punct |
| 7 | helm | helm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 named | obj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 staying | aux |
| 9 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 inn | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 inn | det |
| 12 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 staying | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 city | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 city | det |
| 15 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 inn | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 staying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | participle | a young man not said here | Wil helm | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helm=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stay | past · progressive | a young man | a inn in the city | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at inn=Location |
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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