Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Damon and Pythias., sentence 15
The tyrant ordered the jailer to keep close watch upon Damon, and not let him escape.
Who acts: tyrant, jailer · What happens: order, keep, not let, escape · To what, where: jailer, close watch, Damon, tyrant
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, jailer), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tyrant | det |
| 2 | tyrant | tyrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 jailer | det |
| 5 | jailer | jailer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ordered | xcomp |
| 8 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 watch | amod |
| 9 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obj |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 Damon | case |
| 11 | Damon | Damon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 let | cc |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 let | advmod |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the tyrant | the jailer | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent jailer=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | the jailer not said here | close watch | Damon | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme upon damon=Location | |||
| 3 | not let | infinitive | tyrant | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | escape | infinitive | tyrant not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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