Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 41

He told his friends how the Indians used them for food; and he proved that they would grow in the Old World as well as in the New.

Who acts: Sir, Indians · What happens: tell, use, prove, grow · To what, where: friends, Old World · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Walter Raleigh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sir, Indians), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 friends	nmod:poss
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 told	iobj
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 used	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Indians	det
7	Indians	Indian	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 used	nsubj
8	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	ccomp
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 used	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 food	case
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 used	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 proved	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 proved	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 proved	nsubj
15	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 grow	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 grow	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 grow	aux
19	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 proved	ccomp
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 World	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 World	det
22	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 World	amod
23	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 grow	obl
24	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	19 grow	advmod
25	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 as	fixed
26	as	as	ADP	_	24 as	fixed
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 New	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 New	det
29	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 grow	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Sir		Sir's friends			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient clause=Topic
2	use	past	the Indians	friends = friend			for food	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent they=Theme for food=Eventuality
3	prove	past	Sir					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	grow	would	Indians = indian			the Old World	in the New	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location

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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