Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Damon and Pythias., sentence 3

His home was far away, and he wanted very much to see his father and mother and friends before he died.

Who acts: home, man · What happens: be, want, see, die · To what, where: father

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 (home, man), 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 home	nmod:poss
2	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 away	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 away	cop
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wanted	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wanted	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wanted	nsubj
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 away	advcl
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADV	_	9 wanted	advmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wanted	xcomp
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 see	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 mother	cc
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 father	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 friends	cc
19	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 father	conj
20	before	before	SCONJ	_	22 died	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 died	nsubj
22	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 see	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 away	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	man's home		away, far property	tree rules
2	want	past	man			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	man's father and mother and friends		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus
4	die	past	man			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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