Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Concerning These Stories., sentence 13
It is believed, therefore, that the present collection will be found to possess an educative value which will commend it as a supplementary reader in the middle primary grades at school.
Who acts: present collection, educative value · What happens: believe, find, possess, commend · To what, where: reading, present collection, educative value, middle primary grades
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Concerning These Stories.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (present collection, educative value), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 believed | aux:pass |
| 3 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 therefore | punct |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 believed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 found | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 collection | det |
| 9 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 collection | amod |
| 10 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 found | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 found | aux:pass |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 believed | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 possess | mark |
| 15 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 found | xcomp |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 value | det |
| 17 | educative | educative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 value | amod |
| 18 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 possess | obj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 commend | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 commend | aux |
| 21 | commend | commend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 value | acl:relcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 commend | obj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 reader | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 reader | det |
| 25 | supplementary | supplementary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 reader | amod |
| 26 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 commend | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 grades | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 grades | det |
| 29 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 grades | amod |
| 30 | primary | primary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 grades | amod |
| 31 | grades | grade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 commend | obl |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 school | case |
| 33 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 grades | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present · passive | reading | therefore property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | find | future · passive | the present collection | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | possess | to-infinitive | the present collection not said here | a educative value | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot value=Theme | ||||
| 4 | commend | future | a educative value | reading | the middle primary grades at school | as a supplementary reader | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent it=Theme as reader=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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