Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 41
His best friend through all that time had been his horse,--a strong, noble steed that had borne him safe through many a danger.
Who acts: best friend, strong noble steed · What happens: be, bear · To what, where: horse, rope, danger
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: who acts (best friend, strong noble steed), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 friend | amod |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 horse | nsubj |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 time | det:predet |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | nmod |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 horse | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 horse | cop |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 horse | nmod:poss |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 steed | punct |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 steed | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 steed | det |
| 15 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 steed | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 strong | punct |
| 17 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 steed | amod |
| 18 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 horse | appos |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 borne | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 borne | aux |
| 21 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 steed | acl:relcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 borne | obj |
| 23 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 borne | xcomp |
| 24 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 danger | case |
| 25 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 danger | nsubj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 danger | det |
| 27 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 borne | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 horse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past · perfect | rope's best friend through all time | rope's horse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | past · perfect | a strong noble steed | rope | a danger | safe property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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