Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 46

Every week it costs me more to keep him than he is worth.

Who acts: steed, miser · What happens: cost, keep, be · To what, where: more, me, miser

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 (steed, miser), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 week	det
2	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 costs	obl:unmarked
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 costs	nsubj
4	costs	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 costs	iobj
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 costs	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 keep	mark
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 costs	csubj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 keep	obj
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 worth	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 worth	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 worth	cop
13	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 keep	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 costs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	cost	present	steed	more	me	week		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme i=Beneficiary more=Value
2	keep	to-infinitive		miser				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	is	present	miser				worth property	tree rules

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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