Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 60

It was hard work, and the higher he climbed, the thirst-i-er he became.

Who acts: bank, Genghis, thirst · What happens: be, climb, er, become · To what, where: hard work, i er

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The King and His Hawk.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bank, Genghis, thirst), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 work	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 work	cop
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 work	amod
4	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 higher	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 higher	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 higher	det
8	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 work	acl:relcl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 climbed	nsubj
10	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 higher	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 er	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 er	det
13	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 er	nsubj
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 thirst	punct
15	i	i	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 er	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 er	punct
17	er	er	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 work	conj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 became	nsubj
19	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 er	acl:relcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 work	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	bank	hard work and the i er	tree rules
2	climb	past	Genghis		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	er		thirst		tree rules
4	become	past	Genghis	the i er not said here	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient er=Result

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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