Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Damon and Pythias., sentence 2
For this offense he was dragged to prison, and a day was set when he should be put to death.
What happens: drag, set, put · To what, where: man, day
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: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 offense | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 offense | det |
| 3 | offense | offense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dragged | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dragged | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dragged | aux:pass |
| 6 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 prison | case |
| 8 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dragged | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 set | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 set | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 set | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 set | aux:pass |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dragged | conj |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 put | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 put | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 put | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 put | aux:pass |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 set | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 death | case |
| 21 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag | past · passive | man | for this offense; to prison | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Location for offense=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set | past · passive | a day | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||||
| 3 | put | should · passive | man | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
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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