Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Damon and Pythias., sentence 26

He was happy because he thought that he had come in time, even though it was at the last moment.

Who acts: jailer, trust · What happens: be, think, come · 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 (jailer, trust), 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	3 happy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happy	cop
3	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 thought	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thought	nsubj
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happy	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 come	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 come	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
10	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 thought	ccomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 time	case
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 moment	punct
14	even	even	ADV	_	21 moment	advmod
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 moment	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 moment	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 moment	cop
18	at	at	ADP	_	21 moment	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 moment	det
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 moment	amod
21	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	jailer		happy property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	jailer			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	come	past · perfect	jailer	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	trust	at the last moment		tree rules

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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