Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Soldier., sentence 15
The bullet grazed the Dane's shoulder, but did not do him much harm.
Who acts: bullet · What happens: graze, not do · To what, where: shoulder, bullet
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 (bullet), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bullet | det |
| 2 | bullet | bullet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grazed | nsubj |
| 3 | grazed | graze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Dane | det |
| 5 | Dane | Dane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Dane | case |
| 7 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grazed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 do | cc |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 do | advmod |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 grazed | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 do | obj |
| 14 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 harm | amod |
| 15 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | graze | past | the bullet | the Dane's shoulder | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not do | past · do-support | the bullet not said here | bullet | 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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