Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the City., sentence 16

He had once seen a piece of money that was gold, and he knew that it would buy a great, great many things; and now he thought that if he could get only a little bit of the pave-ment, he would have everything that he wanted.

Who acts: lad, that, gold · What happens: see, be, know, buy, think, get · To what, where: piece, gold, great great many things, little bit, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, I. the City.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad, that, gold), 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 seen	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 seen	advmod
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 piece	det
6	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seen	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 money	case
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 piece	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 gold	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 gold	cop
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 money	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 knew	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 knew	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 knew	nsubj
15	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 buy	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 buy	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 buy	aux
19	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 knew	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 things	det
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 things	amod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 great	punct
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 things	amod
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 things	amod
25	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 buy	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 thought	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 thought	cc
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 thought	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 thought	nsubj
30	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	advcl
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 have	mark
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 get	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 get	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 get	aux
35	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 have	advcl
36	only	only	ADV	_	39 bit	advmod
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 bit	det
38	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 bit	amod
39	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 get	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	44 ment	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 ment	det
42	pave	pave	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 ment	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 pave	punct
44	ment	ment	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bit	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 get	punct
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 have	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 have	aux
48	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 thought	ccomp
49	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	48 have	obj
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 wanted	mark
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 wanted	nsubj
52	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 have	advcl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect	lad	a piece of money and gold		once property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer piece=Stimulus
2	is a	past	that	gold			tree rules
3	know	past	lad				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	buy	would	gold	a great great many things			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme
5	think speech: other	past	lad		now		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	get a condition, not said to happen	could	lad	a little bit of the pave ment			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	have	would	lad	everything			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
8	want	past	lad				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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