Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Arnold Winkelried., sentence 27

He had nothing in his hands, neither club nor stone nor other weapon.

Who acts: Switzerland · What happens: have · To what, where: nothing, hands

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Arnold Winkelried.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Switzerland), 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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 had	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hands	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hands	nmod:poss
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 club	punct
8	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	9 club	cc:preconj
9	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	parataxis
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	11 stone	cc
11	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 club	conj
12	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	14 weapon	cc
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 weapon	amod
14	weapon	weapon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 club	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Switzerland	nothing		Switzerland's hands			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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