Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Guest., sentence 23
Thus all the world was made to know of the mean act by which the soldier had tried to enrich himself; and from that day until he died all men shunned and hated him.
Who acts: world, mean act, GUEST, men · What happens: make, know, try, enrich, die, shun · To what, where: world, soldier, GUEST, day, man
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 (world, mean act, GUEST, 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 made | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 world | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 world | det |
| 4 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 know | mark |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 made | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 act | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 act | det |
| 11 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 act | amod |
| 12 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 know | obl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 tried | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 soldier | det |
| 16 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tried | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 tried | aux |
| 18 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 act | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 enrich | mark |
| 20 | enrich | enrich | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 tried | xcomp |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 enrich | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 day | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 day | cc |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 day | case |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 day | det |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 29 died | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 died | nsubj |
| 29 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 day | acl:relcl |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 men | det |
| 31 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 shunned | nsubj |
| 32 | shunned | shun | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 died | ccomp |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 hated | cc |
| 34 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 died | conj |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 hated | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · passive | all world | day | thus property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | all world not said here | of the mean act | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of act=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | try | past · perfect · passive | the mean act | the soldier | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | enrich not said to happen | to-infinitive | the mean act not said here | GUEST | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Destination | ||||
| 5 | die | past | GUEST | that day not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | shun | past | all men | vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | hate | past | GUEST not said here | man | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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