Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Soldier., sentence 22
"Why did you spare the life of the Swede after he had tried to kill you?" asked the king.
Who acts: you, King · What happens: spare, try, kill, ask · To what, where: life, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg18442:491): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 spare | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 spare | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spare | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 spare | nsubj |
| 5 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 life | det |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spare | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Swede | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Swede | det |
| 10 | Swede | swede | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 life | nmod |
| 11 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 14 tried | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tried | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 tried | aux |
| 14 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 spare | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 kill | mark |
| 16 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 tried | xcomp |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 kill | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 spare | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 spare | punct |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 asked | nsubj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare in a quote | past · do-support | you | the life of the Swede | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset | ||||
| 2 | try in a quote | past · perfect | King | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | kill not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | King not said here | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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