Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Arnold Winkelried., sentence 40
But Switzerland was saved, and Arnold Wink-el-ried did not die in vain.
Who acts: Arnold · What happens: save, ri, not die · To what, where: Switzerland, Arnold
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 (Arnold), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 saved | cc |
| 2 | Switzerland | Switzerland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saved | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saved | aux:pass |
| 4 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 die | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 die | cc |
| 7 | Arnold | Arnold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 die | nsubj:outer |
| 8 | Wink | Wink | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Arnold | flat |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Arnold | punct |
| 10 | el | el | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ried | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 el | punct |
| 12 | ried | ri | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 Arnold | acl:relcl |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 die | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 die | advmod |
| 15 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 saved | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 vain | case |
| 17 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 die | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past · passive | Switzerland | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ri | participle | Arnold not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not die | past · do-support | Arnold | in vain | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in vain=Attribute |
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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