Fifty Famous Stories Retold, He Never Smiled Again., sentence 6

He sat where festal bowls went round; He heard the minstrel sing; He saw the tour-ney's victor crowned Amid the knightly ring.

Who acts: life, festal bowls, minstrel, victor · What happens: sit, go round, hear, sing, see, crown · To what, where: minstrel, victor

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, He Never Smiled Again.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, festal bowls, minstrel, victor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg18442:182): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

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	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 went	advmod
4	festal	festal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bowls	amod
5	bowls	bowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	advcl
7	round	round	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct
9	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sing	det
12	minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obj
13	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 heard	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
15	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 ney	det
18	tour	tour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ney	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 tour	punct
20	ney	ney	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 victor	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 ney	case
22	victor	victor	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obj
23	crowned	crown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 saw	xcomp
24	Amid	amid	ADP	_	27 ring	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ring	det
26	knightly	knightly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 ring	amod
27	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 crowned	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit	past	life			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go round	past	festal bowls		round property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	past	life	minstrel		tree rules
4	sing speech: express	infinitive	minstrel not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	see	past	life	the tour ney's victor		tree rules
6	crown	participle	the tour ney's victor not said here		amid the knightly ring	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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