Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sword of Damocles., sentence 16
He rested himself among soft cushions, and felt that he was the happiest man in all the world.
Who acts: Damocles · What happens: rest, feel, be · To what, where: Damocles, soft cushions, happiest man, world
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 (Damocles), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rested | nsubj |
| 2 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 rested | obj |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 6 cushions | case |
| 5 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cushions | amod |
| 6 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rested | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 felt | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 felt | cc |
| 9 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rested | conj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 man | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 man | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 man | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | happiest | happy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 felt | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 world | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 man | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past | Damocles | Damocles | soft cushions | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme among cushion=Location | |||
| 2 | feel | past | Damocles not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Damocles | the happiest man | all world | 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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