Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 2

His hair and beard were black and long, and his face was tanned and dark; and for this reason people nicknamed him the Black Douglas.

Who acts: hair, people · What happens: be, tan, nickname · To what, where: face, man

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Black Douglas.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair, people), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hair	nmod:poss
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 black	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 beard	cc
4	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hair	conj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 black	cop
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 long	cc
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 black	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tanned	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 tanned	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 face	nmod:poss
12	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tanned	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tanned	aux:pass
14	tanned	tan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 black	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dark	cc
16	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tanned	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 nicknamed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 nicknamed	cc
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 reason	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 reason	det
21	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 nicknamed	obl
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 nicknamed	nsubj
23	nicknamed	nickname	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 black	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 nicknamed	obj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Douglas	det
26	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Douglas	compound
27	Douglas	Douglas	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 nicknamed	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 black	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	man's hair and beard		black property	tree rules
2	be		man's hair and beard not said here			tree rules
3	tan	past · passive		man's face		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	nickname	past	people	man	for this reason	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Result

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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