Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Damon and Pythias., sentence 28
He felt that men who loved and trusted each other, as did Damon and Pythias, ought not to suffer un-just-ly.
Who acts: tyrant, men · What happens: feel, love, trust, do, not suffer · To what, where: other, Damon
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, men), 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 | 2 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 suffer | mark |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 suffer | nsubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 loved | nsubj |
| 6 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 men | acl:relcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 trusted | cc |
| 8 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 loved | conj |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 other | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trusted | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 did | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 did | mark |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 trusted | advcl |
| 14 | Damon | Damon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 did | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Pythias | cc |
| 16 | Pythias | Pythias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Damon | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 men | punct |
| 18 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 suffer | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 suffer | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 suffer | mark |
| 21 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 felt | ccomp |
| 22 | un-just-ly | un-just-ly | ADV | _ | 21 suffer | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | tyrant | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | love | past | men | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | trust | participle | men not said here | each other | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | past | men not said here | Damon and Pythias | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damon=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | not suffer | ought | men | un-just-ly property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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