Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Damon and Pythias., sentence 13
He at last agreed to let Pythias go, and gave orders that the young man Da-mon should be shut up in prison.
Who acts: tyrant, Pythias · What happens: agree, let, go, give, shut up · To what, where: Pythias, orders, young man, prison
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 (tyrant, Pythias), 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 | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 4 agreed | mark |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 agreed | amod |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 let | mark |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 agreed | xcomp |
| 7 | Pythias | pythia | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gave | cc |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | conj |
| 12 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gave | obj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 shut | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shut | nsubj |
| 17 | Da | Da | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 man | appos |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Da | punct |
| 19 | mon | mon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | conj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 shut | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 shut | aux:pass |
| 22 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 gave | advcl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 shut | compound:prt |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 prison | case |
| 25 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shut | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | participle | tyrant | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let not said to happen | to-infinitive | tyrant not said here | Pythias | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | Pythias not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give | past | tyrant not said here | orders | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 5 | shut up | should · passive | the young man and mon | prison | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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