Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 39

The people were not so bad that they could be cruel to the poor slave now. "

Who acts: people · What happens: not be, be

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 (people), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bad	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bad	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 bad	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 bad	advmod
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 cruel	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cruel	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 cruel	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 cruel	cop
11	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bad	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 slave	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 slave	det
14	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 slave	amod
15	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cruel	obl
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 slave	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bad	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 bad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the people					bad property	tree rules
2	is	could	people					to the poor slave; cruel property	tree rules

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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