Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Soldier., sentence 25
And he re-ward-ed him by making him a knight, and giving him a noble title.
Who acts: King · What happens: re-ward-, make, give · To what, where: soldier, knight, King, noble title
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 (King), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 re-ward-ed | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 re-ward-ed | nsubj |
| 3 | re-ward-ed | re-ward- | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 re-ward-ed | obj |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 making | mark |
| 6 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 re-ward-ed | advcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 making | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 knight | det |
| 9 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 making | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 giving | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 giving | cc |
| 12 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 re-ward-ed | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 giving | iobj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 title | det |
| 15 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 title | amod |
| 16 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 giving | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 re-ward-ed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | re-ward- | past | King | soldier | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | King not said here | a knight | King | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary knight=Product | |||
| 3 | give | gerund | King not said here | a noble title | King | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient title=Theme |
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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