Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 171
One day not long after that, there was a great outcry among the crowd that was watching the rope-dan-cers.
Who acts: great outcry, crowd · What happens: be, watch · To what, where: dan cers
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 (great outcry, crowd), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 long | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 was | advmod |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 that | case |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 long | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 outcry | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 outcry | amod |
| 12 | outcry | outcry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 13 | among | among | ADP | _ | 15 crowd | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 crowd | det |
| 15 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 outcry | nmod |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 watching | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 watching | aux |
| 18 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 crowd | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cers | det |
| 20 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 dan | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 rope | punct |
| 22 | dan | dan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cers | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 dan | punct |
| 24 | cers | cer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 watching | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a great outcry among the crowd | there | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | watch | past · progressive | the crowd | the dan cers | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cer=Theme |
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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