Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Guest., sentence 5

The soldier was cast half-drowned upon the shore; and he would have died there, had it not been for the kind care of a farmer who lived close by.

Who acts: storm, farmer · What happens: cast, drown, die, have, not be, live · To what, where: soldier, shore

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 (storm, farmer), 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	2 soldier	det
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cast	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cast	aux:pass
4	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	7 drowned	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 half	punct
7	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cast	xcomp
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	10 shore	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shore	det
10	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 drowned	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 died	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 died	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 died	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 died	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 died	aux
16	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 had	advcl
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 died	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cast	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	obj
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 care	advmod
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 care	cop
23	for	for	ADP	_	26 care	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 care	det
25	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 care	amod
26	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 farmer	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 farmer	det
29	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 care	nmod
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 lived	nsubj
31	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 farmer	acl:relcl
32	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 lived	advmod
33	by	by	ADP	_	32 close	fixed
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cast	past · passive		the soldier			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
2	drown	participle				upon the shore	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	die	would · perfect	storm		there		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	have	past		shore			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	not is	participle				for the kind care; of a farmer	tree rules
6	live	past	a farmer			close property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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