Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the Three Questions., sentence 29
Here was a great school, called a u-ni-ver'si-ty, and he wanted to see if any of the wise pro-fess-ors could help him.
Who acts: u ni, head, any · What happens: be, call, ty, want, see, help · To what, where: great school, head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, I. the Three Questions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (u ni, head, any), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 school | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 school | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 school | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 school | amod |
| 5 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 school | acl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ni | det |
| 9 | u | u | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ni | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 u | punct |
| 11 | ni | no | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ty | nsubj |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 ni | punct |
| 13 | ver'si | ver'si | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ty | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 ver'si | punct |
| 15 | ty | ty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wanted | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wanted | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wanted | nsubj |
| 19 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 called | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wanted | xcomp |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 help | mark |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 help | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 pro-fess-ors | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pro-fess-ors | det |
| 26 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 pro-fess-ors | amod |
| 27 | pro-fess-ors | pro-fess-or | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 any | nmod |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 help | aux |
| 29 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 see | advcl |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 help | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 school | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a great school | here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a great school not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ty | a u ni | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | want | past | head | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | head not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | help a condition, not said to happen | could | any | head | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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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