Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 3

He was now so poor that he had to do all the work on his farm with his own hands.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, have, do · To what, where: work, farm

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	5 poor	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 poor	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 poor	advmod
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 poor	advmod
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 had	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 poor	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 had	xcomp
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 work	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 work	det
13	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 farm	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 farm	nmod:poss
16	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 hands	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 hands	nmod:poss
19	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hands	amod
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 do	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 poor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	man			now	poor property	tree rules
2	have	past	man					tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	man not said here	all work	man's farm		with man's own hands	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=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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