Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sword of Damocles., sentence 37
And so long as he lived, he never again wanted to be rich, or to change places, even for a moment, with the king.
Who acts: Damocles · What happens: live, want, be, change · To what, where: places
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lived | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 long | advmod |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 lived | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 lived | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wanted | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wanted | nsubj |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 again | advmod |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 wanted | advmod |
| 11 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 rich | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 rich | cop |
| 14 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wanted | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 change | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 change | cc |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 change | mark |
| 18 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wanted | conj |
| 19 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 change | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 moment | punct |
| 21 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 moment | advmod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 moment | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 moment | det |
| 24 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 change | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 king | punct |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 king | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 king | det |
| 28 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 moment | appos |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Damocles | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | want | past | Damocles | again | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | Damocles not said here | rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | change | to-infinitive | Damocles not said here | places | moment | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
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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