Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 38
This poor lion alone has been kind to me; and we love each other as brothers."
Who acts: poor lion, we · What happens: be, love · To what, where: me, each
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Androclus and the Lion.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor lion, we), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 lion | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lion | amod |
| 3 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kind | nsubj |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 lion | advmod |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kind | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 kind | cop |
| 7 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 kind | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 love | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 love | cc |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 love | nsubj |
| 13 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kind | parataxis |
| 14 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 13 love | obj |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 each | fixed |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 brothers | case |
| 17 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 love | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kind | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | this poor lion | me | kind property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | love | present | we | each | as brothers | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=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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