Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Bruce and the Spider., sentence 22

He told them of his plans, and sent them out with mes-sa-ges of cheer to his dis-heart-ened people.

Who acts: Bruce · What happens: tell, send out, plan · To what, where: men, ened people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Bruce and the Spider.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bruce), 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	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 plans	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 plans	nmod:poss
6	plans	plan	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sent	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sent	cc
9	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sent	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	9 sent	compound:prt
12	with	with	ADP	_	17 ges	case
13	mes	me	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ges	nsubj
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 mes	punct
15	sa	sa	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ges	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 sa	punct
17	ges	ge	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sent	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 cheer	case
19	cheer	cheer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ges	nmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	27 people	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 people	nmod:poss
22	dis	dis	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 heart	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 dis	punct
24	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 ened	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 heart	punct
26	ened	ened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 people	amod
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sent	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Bruce		men = man	of Bruce's plans	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	send out	past	Bruce not said here	men = man	Bruce's ened people	with sa ges of cheer	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to people=Destination
3	plan		Bruce				nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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