Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 79

He was counting the paving stones, as he had done a thousand times before.

Who acts: work · What happens: count, do · To what, where: paving stones

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 counting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 counting	aux
3	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stones	det
5	paving	paving	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stones	compound
6	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 counting	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 done	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 done	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 done	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 done	aux
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 counting	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 thousand	det
13	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 times	nummod
14	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 done	obl:unmarked
15	before	before	ADV	_	11 done	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 counting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	past · progressive	work	the paving stones					vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
2	do	past · perfect	work				time	before property	vn act-114-1 «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.

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