Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Guest., sentence 6

When the soldier was well enough to go home, he thanked the farmer for what he had done, and promised that he would repay him for his kindness.

Who acts: soldier, storm · What happens: be, go, thank, do, promise, repay · To what, where: farmer · 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 (soldier, storm), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 enough	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 soldier	det
3	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 enough	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 enough	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 enough	advmod
6	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 thanked	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 enough	advcl
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 enough	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thanked	nsubj
12	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 farmer	det
14	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thanked	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 what	case
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 farmer	nmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 done	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 done	aux
19	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 what	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 promised	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 promised	cc
22	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thanked	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 repay	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 repay	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 repay	aux
26	repay	repay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 promised	ccomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 repay	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 kindness	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 kindness	nmod:poss
30	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 repay	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the soldier			enough, well property	tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	the soldier not said here			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	thank speech: thank	past	storm		the farmer		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent farmer=Theme for what=Attribute
4	do	past · perfect	storm				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	promise speech: promise	past	storm not said here				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	repay	would	storm	farmer		for storm's kindness	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Asset for kindness=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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