Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Guest., sentence 20

King Philip was very angry when he learned that the man whom he had trusted had done so base a deed.

Who acts: Philip, man · What happens: be, learn, trust, do · To what, where: man, base · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Philip, 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	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Philip	nmod:desc
2	Philip	Philip	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 angry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 angry	advmod
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 learned	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 learned	nsubj
8	learned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	advcl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 done	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 done	nsubj
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 trusted	nsubj:pass
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 trusted	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 trusted	aux
15	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 man	acl:relcl
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 done	aux
17	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 learned	ccomp
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 base	advmod
19	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 done	obl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 deed	det
21	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 done	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Philip King		angry property	tree rules
2	learn	past	Philip			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	trust	past · perfect · passive		the man		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	do	past · perfect	the man	base		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality

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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