Fifty Famous Stories Retold, He Never Smiled Again., sentence 7
A murmur of the restless deep Was blent with every strain, A voice of winds that would not sleep-- He never smiled again.
Who acts: murmur, winds, life · What happens: be, not sleep, not smile, murmur · To what, where: restless deep
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 (murmur, winds, life), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 murmur | det |
| 2 | murmur | murmur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blent | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 deep | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 deep | det |
| 5 | restless | restless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 deep | amod |
| 6 | deep | deep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 murmur | nmod |
| 7 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 blent | cop |
| 8 | blent | blent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 strain | case |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 strain | det |
| 11 | strain | strain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blent | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 voice | punct |
| 13 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 voice | det |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 strain | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 winds | case |
| 16 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 voice | nmod |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 sleep | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 sleep | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 sleep | advmod |
| 20 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 winds | acl:relcl |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 smiled | punct |
| 22 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 smiled | nsubj |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 24 smiled | advmod |
| 24 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 blent | parataxis |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 smiled | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 blent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a murmur of the restless deep | with every strain a voice of winds; blent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not sleep | would | winds | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not smile | past | life | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | murmur | the restless deep | nom murmur «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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