Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 2

He had once been rich, and had held the highest office in the land; but in one way or another he had lost all his wealth.

Who acts: man · What happens: have, be, hold, lose · To what, where: highest office, land, wealth, one way

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of Cincinnatus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 rich	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 rich	cop
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 held	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 held	cc
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 held	aux
9	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 had	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 office	det
11	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 office	amod
12	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 held	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 land	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 land	det
15	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 office	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 lost	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 lost	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 way	case
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 way	nummod
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lost	obl
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 another	cc
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 way	conj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 lost	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 lost	aux
25	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 had	conj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 wealth	det:predet
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 wealth	nmod:poss
28	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lost	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	man				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	participle	man not said here			once, rich property	tree rules
3	hold	past · perfect	man not said here	the highest office	the land		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent office=Theme in land=Location
4	lose	past · perfect	man	man's wealth	one way		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Eventuality

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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