Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 18
Some people from the city were coming, and there was to be a grand feast.
Who acts: people · What happens: come, be · To what, where: grand feast
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 (people), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 coming | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 city | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 city | det |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 people | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 coming | aux |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 feast | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 was | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 feast | cop |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 feast | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 feast | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 feast | det |
| 15 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 feast | amod |
| 16 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 coming | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · progressive | some people from the city | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | a grand feast | tree rules |
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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