Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Damon and Pythias., sentence 10

I know that he will come back as he promised, for he is a man who has never broken his word.

Who acts: I, man · What happens: know, come back, promise, be, not break, word · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Damon and Pythias.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 come	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 know	ccomp
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 promised	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 promised	nsubj
10	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 come	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 man	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	16 man	case
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 man	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 man	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 promised	obj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 broken	nsubj:pass
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 broken	aux
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 broken	advmod
20	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 man	acl:relcl
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 word	nmod:poss
22	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 broken	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	I			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	come back	future	man			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	promise speech: promise	past	man			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	man		for a man	tree rules
5	not break	present · perfect · passive		a man		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient word=Result
6	word		man			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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