Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Doctor Goldsmith., sentence 5

He gave away so much to the poor that he was always poor himself.

Who acts: man · What happens: give away, be · To what, where: much, poor

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), 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	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 gave	advmod
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gave	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 poor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 poor	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 much	nmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 poor	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 poor	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 poor	cop
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 poor	advmod
13	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 much	advcl
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 poor	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give away	past	man	much	the poor			away property	vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent much=Theme to poor=Recipient
2	is	past	man					man obl; always, poor property	tree rules

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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