Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 68
He was my best friend, and I have killed him."
Who acts: hawk · What happens: be, kill · To what, where: best friend, I
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 (hawk), 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 | 5 friend | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 friend | cop |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nmod:poss |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 friend | amod |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 killed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 killed | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 killed | aux |
| 10 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 friend | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 killed | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | hawk | my best friend | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | present · perfect · passive | I | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=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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