Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Philip Sidney., sentence 5
One of these soldiers was a no-ble-man, whom everybody loved for his gen-tle-ness and kindness.
Who acts: One, everybody · What happens: be, love · To what, where: ble man
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 (One, everybody), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 man | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 soldiers | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 soldiers | det |
| 4 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 man | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 man | det |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 no | punct |
| 9 | ble | ble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ble | punct |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 loved | punct |
| 13 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 loved | obj |
| 14 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 loved | nsubj |
| 15 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 man | acl:relcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 ness | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 ness | nmod:poss |
| 18 | gen | gen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ness | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 gen | punct |
| 20 | tle | tle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ness | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 ness | punct |
| 22 | ness | ness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 loved | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 kindness | cc |
| 24 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ness | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | One of this soldiers | a ble man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love | past | everybody | a ble man | for ground's gen tle ness and kindness | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus for ness=Attribute |
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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