Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Damon and Pythias., sentence 22

His trust in his friend was as firm as ever; and he said that he did not grieve at having to suffer for one whom he loved so much.

Who acts: trust, Damon · What happens: be, say, not grieve, have, suffer, love · 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 (trust, Damon), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 trust	nmod:poss
2	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 firm	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 friend	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 friend	nmod:poss
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trust	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 firm	cop
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 firm	advmod
8	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 ever	case
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 firm	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 firm	parataxis
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 grieve	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 grieve	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 grieve	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 grieve	advmod
19	grieve	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
20	at	at	SCONJ	_	21 having	mark
21	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 grieve	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 suffer	mark
23	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 having	xcomp
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 one	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 suffer	obl
26	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 loved	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 loved	nsubj
28	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 one	acl:relcl
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 much	advmod
30	much	much	ADV	_	28 loved	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 firm	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	Damon's trust in Damon's friend	firm property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Damon		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not grieve	past · do-support	Damon		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	have	gerund	Damon not said here		tree rules
5	suffer	to-infinitive	Damon not said here	for one	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	love	past	Damon		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
7	trust		Damon	in Damon's friend	nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=agent in=obl

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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