Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 75
He has come to call for justice; for his master, as everybody knows, has treated him most shame-ful-ly."
Who acts: miser, everybody · What happens: come, call, know, treat · To what, where: miser · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (miser, everybody), 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 | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 call | mark |
| 5 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 justice | case |
| 7 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 call | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 master | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 master | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 master | nmod:poss |
| 11 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 knows | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 knows | mark |
| 14 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 knows | nsubj |
| 15 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 treated | punct |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 treated | aux |
| 18 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 knows | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 treated | obj |
| 20 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 ly | amod |
| 21 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ly | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 shame | punct |
| 23 | ful | ful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ly | amod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 ful | punct |
| 25 | ly | ly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 treated | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | miser | for miser's master | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | to-infinitive | miser not said here | for justice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for justice=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | know | present | everybody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | treat | present · perfect | everybody not said here | miser | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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