Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 22
Many wrongs were righted, many ill-doers were punished.
What happens: right, punish · To what, where: Many wrongs, many ill doers
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Bell of Atri.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wrongs | amod |
| 2 | wrongs | wrong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 righted | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 righted | aux:pass |
| 4 | righted | right | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 punished | punct |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 doers | amod |
| 7 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 doers | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ill | punct |
| 9 | doers | doer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 punished | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 punished | aux:pass |
| 11 | punished | punish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 righted | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 righted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | right | past · passive | Many wrongs | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | punish | past · passive | many ill doers | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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