Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Doctor Goldsmith., sentence 11
He was not sick, but in distress; and, as for eating, there was no food in the house.
Who acts: man, food · What happens: not be, eat, be
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Doctor Goldsmith.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, food), 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 | 4 sick | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sick | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 sick | advmod |
| 4 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 distress | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 distress | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 distress | case |
| 8 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sick | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 eating | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 eating | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 and | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 eating | mark |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 eating | mark |
| 14 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sick | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 was | punct |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sick | parataxis |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 food | det |
| 19 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 was | nsubj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 house | det |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 food | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | man | sick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | gerund | man not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | be | past | no food in the house | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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