Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 69
Many years ago there was a poor gentleman shut up in one of the great prisons of France.
Who acts: poor gentleman · What happens: be, shut up · To what, where: poor gentleman
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 (poor gentleman), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 years | amod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 was | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 2 years | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 gentleman | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 gentleman | amod |
| 8 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 9 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 gentleman | acl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 shut | compound:prt |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 one | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 shut | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 prisons | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 prisons | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 prisons | amod |
| 16 | prisons | prison | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 France | case |
| 18 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 prisons | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a poor gentleman | there | year | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | shut up | participle | a poor gentleman not said here | in one of the great prisons of France | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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