Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 78
After that, as long as she lived, Po-ca-hon-tas was the friend of the white men, and she did a great many things to help them.
Who acts: that, Po · What happens: live, be, do, help · To what, where: friend, great many things, friends
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 (that, Po), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 that | punct |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 lived | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 lived | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
| 10 | Po | Po | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 friend | nsubj |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Po | punct |
| 12 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 tas | aux |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 ca | punct |
| 14 | hon | hon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tas | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 hon | punct |
| 16 | tas | ta | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Po | nmod |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 friend | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 friend | det |
| 19 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | advcl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 men | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 men | det |
| 22 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 men | amod |
| 23 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 friend | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 did | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 did | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 did | nsubj |
| 27 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lived | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 things | det |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 things | amod |
| 30 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 things | amod |
| 31 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 did | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 help | mark |
| 33 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 things | acl |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 help | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | that | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Po hon tas | the friend | of the white men | tree rules | |||
| 3 | do | past | Po | a great many things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | Po not said here | friends = friend | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
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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