Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 76
His only pastime was walking back and forth in the paved prison yard.
Who acts: only pastime · What happens: walk back, pave
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 (only pastime), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 pastime | nmod:poss |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pastime | amod |
| 3 | pastime | pastime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 walking | aux |
| 5 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 walking | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 forth | cc |
| 8 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 6 back | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 yard | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 yard | det |
| 11 | paved | pave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 yard | amod |
| 12 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 yard | compound |
| 13 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walking | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk back | past · progressive | gentleman's only pastime | in the paved prison yard | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in yard=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | pave | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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