Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 63
There were famous artists among them, and they knew that the lad was a genius.
Who acts: famous artists, guests, lad · What happens: be, know · To what, where: genius · 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: who acts (famous artists, guests, lad), 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 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 artists | amod |
| 4 | artists | artist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 artists | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knew | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 knew | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 knew | nsubj |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 were | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 genius | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lad | det |
| 13 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 genius | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 genius | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 genius | det |
| 16 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knew | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | famous artists among guests | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | past | guests = guest | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the lad | a genius | 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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