Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 10

Robin never allowed his men to harm any-body but the rich men who lived in great houses and did no work.

Who acts: Robin, men, rich men · What happens: not allow, harm, live, do · To what, where: men, body, great houses, work

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Story of Robin Hood.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Robin, men, rich men), 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	Robin	Robin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 allowed	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 allowed	advmod
3	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 men	nmod:poss
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 allowed	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 harm	mark
7	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 allowed	xcomp
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 body	det
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 any	punct
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 harm	obj
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 men	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 men	det
13	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 men	amod
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 body	conj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 lived	nsubj
16	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 men	acl:relcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 houses	case
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 houses	amod
19	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lived	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 did	cc
21	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 lived	conj
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 work	det
23	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 did	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 allowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not allow	past	Robin	Robin's men		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer man=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	harm not said to happen	to-infinitive	Robin's men not said here	any body but the rich men		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus body=Experiencer
3	live	past	the rich men		great houses	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
4	do	past	the rich men not said here	no work		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality

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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