Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Guest., sentence 21
He sent for the soldier in great haste; and when he had come, he caused these words to be burned in his forehead:--
Who acts: man · What happens: send, come, cause, burn · To what, where: great haste, words, forehead
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 soldier | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 soldier | det |
| 5 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 haste | case |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 haste | amod |
| 8 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 come | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 come | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 sent | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 caused | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 caused | nsubj |
| 17 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sent | parataxis |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 words | det |
| 19 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 caused | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 burned | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 burned | aux:pass |
| 22 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 caused | advcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 forehead | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 25 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 burned | obl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | man | great haste | for the soldier | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in haste=Destination | |||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cause | past | man | this words | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition word=Patient | ||||
| 4 | burn | to-infinitive · passive | man not said here | man's forehead | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: in forehead=Location |
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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