Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 7

Ill and very lonely, he dreamed of his wife and little children so far away beyond the sea; and he had but little hope of ever seeing them again.

Who acts: Carthage, little hope · What happens: dream, have, see · To what, where: little hope, lus

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of Regulus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carthage, little hope), 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	Ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 lonely	cc
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 lonely	advmod
4	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Ill	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dreamed	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dreamed	nsubj
7	dreamed	dream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Ill	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 wife	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dreamed	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 children	cc
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 children	amod
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wife	conj
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 away	advmod
15	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 away	advmod
16	away	away	ADV	_	7 dreamed	advmod
17	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	19 sea	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sea	det
19	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 away	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 had	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dreamed	conj
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 hope	cc
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hope	amod
26	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
27	of	of	SCONJ	_	29 seeing	mark
28	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 seeing	advmod
29	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 hope	acl
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 seeing	obj
31	again	again	ADV	_	29 seeing	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	dream	past	Carthage			of Carthage's wife and little children; away property	vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	Carthage	little hope			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Patient
3	see	gerund	little hope not said here	lus = lu	ever; again		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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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