Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 23

Many a man has been punished because he was wise, but I have never heard of any one being harmed because he was a fool.

Who acts: Dobbin, I · What happens: punish, be, not hear, harm · To what, where: Many man, one, fool

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Other Wise Men of Gotham.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dobbin, I), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 punished	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 punished	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 punished	aux:pass
6	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 wise	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wise	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wise	cop
10	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 punished	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 heard	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 heard	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 heard	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 heard	advmod
16	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 punished	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 one	case
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	obl
20	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 harmed	aux:pass
21	harmed	harm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 one	acl
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	26 fool	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fool	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 fool	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 fool	det
26	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 harmed	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 punished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	punish	present · perfect · passive		a Many man		vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is	past	Dobbin		wise property	tree rules
3	not hear	present · perfect	I		of any one	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of one=Stimulus
4	harm	gerund · passive		any one not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
5	is a	past	Dobbin	a fool		tree rules

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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