Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 73
The men with the clubs could not strike, for they did not want to hurt the child.
Who acts: men, clubs · What happens: not strike, not want, hurt · To what, where: child
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 (men, clubs), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 strike | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 clubs | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 clubs | det |
| 5 | clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 men | nmod |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 strike | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 strike | advmod |
| 8 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 want | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 want | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 want | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 want | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 want | advmod |
| 14 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 strike | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 hurt | mark |
| 16 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 want | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 child | det |
| 18 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hurt | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 strike | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not strike | could | the men with the clubs | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | not want | past · do-support | clubs = club | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hurt not said to happen | to-infinitive | clubs = club not said here | the child | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Patient |
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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