Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Concerning These Stories., sentence 15

Acknowledgments are due to Mrs. Charles A. Lane, by whom eight or ten of the stories were suggested.

Who acts: Acknowledgments · What happens: be, suggest · To what, where: Mrs. Charles, eight

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 (Acknowledgments), 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	Acknowledgments	acknowledgment	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 due	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 due	cop
3	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Charles	case
5	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Charles	compound
6	Charles	Charles	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 due	obl
7	A.	A.	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Lane	compound
8	Lane	Lane	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Charles	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 whom	punct
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 whom	case
11	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 due	conj
12	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 suggested	nsubj:pass
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 ten	cc
14	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 eight	conj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 stories	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stories	det
17	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 eight	nmod
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 suggested	aux:pass
19	suggested	suggest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 whom	acl:relcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 due	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Acknowledgments		Mrs. Charles and A. Lane			due property	tree rules
2	suggest speech: suggest	past · passive		eight of the stories					vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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