Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sword of Damocles., sentence 25
He wanted no more food; he could drink no more wine; he took no more delight in the music.
Who acts: smile · What happens: want, drink, take · To what, where: more food, more wine, more delight, music
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 (smile), 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 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 food | advmod |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 food | amod |
| 5 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wanted | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 drink | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 drink | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 drink | aux |
| 9 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wanted | conj |
| 10 | no | no | ADV | _ | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 wine | amod |
| 12 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drink | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wanted | conj |
| 16 | no | no | ADV | _ | 17 more | advmod |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 delight | amod |
| 18 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 music | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 music | det |
| 21 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | smile | more food | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drink | could | smile | more wine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take | past | smile | more delight | the music | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent delight=Value in music=Location |
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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