Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Cornelia's Jewels., sentence 32

I am sure that the boys never forgot their mother's pride and love and care; and in after years, when they had become great men in Rome, they often thought of this scene in the garden.

Who acts: I, boys, mother · What happens: be, not forget, become, think, pride · To what, where: pride, great men

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Cornelia's Jewels.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, boys, mother), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 sure	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	cop
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 forgot	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boys	det
6	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 forgot	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 forgot	advmod
8	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	ccomp
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 mother	nmod:poss
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pride	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 mother	case
12	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 forgot	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 love	cc
14	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pride	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 care	cc
16	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pride	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 years	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 years	cc
19	in	in	ADV	_	21 years	advmod
20	after	after	ADP	_	21 years	case
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sure	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 become	punct
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 become	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 become	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 become	aux
26	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 years	acl:relcl
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 men	amod
28	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 become	xcomp
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 Rome	case
30	Rome	Rome	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 men	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 thought	nsubj
33	often	often	ADV	_	34 thought	advmod
34	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	parataxis
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 scene	case
36	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 scene	det
37	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 thought	obl
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 garden	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 garden	det
40	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 scene	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		sure property	tree rules
2	not forget	past	the boys	boys's mother's pride and love and care		tree rules
3	become	past · perfect	boys = boy	great men in Rome		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	think speech: other	past	boys = boy		of this scene in the garden; often property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pride		boys's mother			nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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