Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the City., sentence 2

His father and mother had died when he was only a babe, and the people who had the care of him were very poor.

Who acts: father, boy, people · What happens: die, be, have, care · To what, where: babe, care

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 (father, boy, people), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 mother	cc
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 father	conj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 died	aux
6	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 babe	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 babe	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 babe	cop
10	only	only	ADV	_	12 babe	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 babe	det
12	babe	babe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 poor	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 poor	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 people	det
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 poor	nsubj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 people	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 care	det
20	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 care	nmod
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 poor	cop
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 poor	advmod
25	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 died	advcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	die	past · perfect	boy's father and mother			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is a	past	boy	a babe		tree rules
3	have	past	the people	the care of boy		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Patient
4	is	past	the people		poor property	tree rules
5	care		boy			nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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