Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 11

He added a very hard con-di-tion. "

Who acts: king · What happens: add · To what, where: hard con di tion

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Endless Tale.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 added	nsubj
2	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tion	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tion	amod
6	con	con	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tion	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 con	punct
8	di	di	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tion	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 tion	punct
10	tion	tion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 added	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 added	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 added	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	past	king	a hard con di tion					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tion=Patient

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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