Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Guest., sentence 18
The poor farmer was stung to the heart by such treat-ment.
Who acts: such treat ment · What happens: sting · To what, where: poor farmer
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Ungrateful Guest.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (such treat ment), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 farmer | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 farmer | amod |
| 3 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stung | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stung | aux:pass |
| 5 | stung | sting | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 heart | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 heart | det |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stung | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 ment | case |
| 10 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ment | amod |
| 11 | treat | treat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ment | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 treat | punct |
| 13 | ment | ment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stung | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting | past · passive | such treat ment | the poor farmer | to the heart | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=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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