Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 77

There was no work to be done, no one to talk with.

Who acts: work · What happens: be, do, talk

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 (work), 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 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 work	det
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 done	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 done	aux:pass
7	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 work	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 work	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 talk	mark
12	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 one	acl
13	with	with	ADP	_	12 talk	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	be	past	no work and no one	there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	to-infinitive · passive	no work and no one not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»
3	talk	to-infinitive	no work and no one not said here		vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/54/77/