Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Soldier., sentence 14

He pulled a pistol from his pocket, and shot at the man who would have be-friend-ed him.

Who acts: soldier, man · What happens: pull, shoot, have, be · To what, where: pistol, pocket, friend ed

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Ungrateful Soldier.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulled	nsubj
2	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pistol	det
4	pistol	pistol	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulled	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 pocket	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 pocket	nmod:poss
7	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulled	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shot	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 shot	cc
10	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 pulled	parataxis
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 man	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shot	obl
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 have	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 have	aux
16	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 man	acl:relcl
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 ed	cop
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 friend	punct
19	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ed	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 friend	punct
21	ed	ed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ed	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 pulled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pull	past	soldier	a pistol	soldier's pocket		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent pistol=Theme from pocket=Initial_Location
2	shoot	past				at the man	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at man=Destination
3	have	would	the man				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a	infinitive		friend ed			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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