Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 84
He has saved you from many a peril.
Who acts: horse · What happens: save · To what, where: many, you
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 (horse), 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 saved | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 saved | aux |
| 3 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 saved | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 many | case |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saved | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 peril | det |
| 8 | peril | peril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 many | nsubj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | present · perfect | horse | many | you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary many=Theme |
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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