Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sword of Damocles., sentence 14

Nothing was wanting that could give him pleasure.

Who acts: that · What happens: want, give, pleasure · To what, where: Damocles

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sword of Damocles.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanting	aux
3	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Nothing	conj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 give	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	parataxis
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	pleasure	pleasure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 give	xcomp
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	want	past · progressive			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	give	could	that	Damocles	tree rules
3	pleasure	infinitive	that not said here		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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