Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Philip Sidney., sentence 22

Rich and poor, high and low, all felt that they had lost a friend; all mourned the death of the kindest, gentlest man that they had ever known.

Who acts: Rich, tears, kindest gentlest man · What happens: feel, lose, mourn, know, die · To what, where: friend, death, tears

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Philip Sidney.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rich, tears, kindest gentlest man), 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	Rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 felt	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 poor	cc
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Rich	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 high	punct
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Rich	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 low	cc
7	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 high	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 felt	punct
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 felt	advmod
10	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 lost	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lost	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lost	aux
14	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 felt	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 friend	det
16	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lost	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 mourned	punct
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 mourned	advmod
19	mourned	mourn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 felt	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 death	det
21	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mourned	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	27 man	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 man	det
24	kindest	kind	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 man	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 kindest	punct
26	gentlest	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 man	amod
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 death	nmod
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 known	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 known	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 known	aux
31	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 known	advmod
32	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 mourned	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	feel	past	Rich			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	lose	past · perfect	tears = tear	a friend		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Eventuality
3	mourn	past	Rich not said here	the death of the kindest gentlest man		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer death=Stimulus
4	know	past · perfect · passive		tears = tear	ever	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
5	die		the kindest gentlest man			nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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