Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 22
Ah, where now were those who had lately been so heart-free and glad?
What happens: be · To what, where: those
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The White Ship.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 3 where | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 those | advmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 those | cop |
| 6 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 where | nsubj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 free | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 free | aux |
| 9 | lately | lately | ADV | _ | 14 free | advmod |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 free | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 free | advmod |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 free | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 heart | punct |
| 14 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 those | acl:relcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 glad | cc |
| 16 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 free | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 where | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | those | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | free, lately property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | 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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