Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 39
He was the only person left alive to tell the sad story.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, leave, tell · To what, where: only person, sad story · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (man), 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 | 5 person | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 person | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 person | det |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 person | amod |
| 5 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 person | acl |
| 7 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 left | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 tell | mark |
| 9 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 left | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 story | det |
| 11 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 story | amod |
| 12 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tell | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 person | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | man | the only person | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | the only person not said here | alive property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the sad story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
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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