Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 86

Therefore we order that one half of all your gold shall be set aside to buy him shelter and food, a green pasture where he may graze, and a warm stall to comfort him in his old age."

Who acts: we, horse · What happens: order, set, buy, graze, comfort · To what, where: warm stall, one half, shelter, horse, old age

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 (we, 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	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 order	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 order	nsubj
3	order	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 set	mark
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 half	nummod
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 set	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 gold	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 gold	det:predet
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 gold	nmod:poss
10	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 half	nmod
11	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 set	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 set	aux:pass
13	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 order	ccomp
14	aside	aside	ADV	_	13 set	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 buy	mark
16	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 set	xcomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 buy	iobj
18	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 buy	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 food	cc
20	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shelter	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pasture	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pasture	det
23	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pasture	amod
24	pasture	pasture	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shelter	conj
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 graze	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 graze	nsubj
27	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 graze	aux
28	graze	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 pasture	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 stall	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 stall	cc
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 stall	det
32	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 stall	amod
33	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 order	obl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 comfort	mark
35	comfort	comfort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 stall	acl
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 comfort	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	40 age	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 age	nmod:poss
39	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 age	amod
40	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 comfort	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 order	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 order	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	order	present	we	a warm stall			therefore property	vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	set	shall · passive		one half of your gold			aside property	tree rules
3	buy	to-infinitive		shelter and food and a green pasture	horse			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary shelter=Theme
4	graze	may	horse					vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	comfort	to-infinitive	we not said here	horse		in horse's old age		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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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