Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Bruce and the Spider., sentence 8
He was tired and sick at heart, and ready to give up all hope.
Who acts: Bruce · What happens: be, give up · To what, where: heart, hope
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 | 3 tired | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tired | cop |
| 3 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sick | cc |
| 5 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tired | conj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 heart | case |
| 7 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sick | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ready | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ready | cc |
| 10 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tired | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 give | mark |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ready | xcomp |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 give | compound:prt |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 hope | det |
| 15 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Bruce | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Bruce not said here | heart | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | Bruce not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | give up | to-infinitive | Bruce not said here | all hope | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Source |
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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