Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 28
They tor-ment-ed Dick so much, that he did not know what to do.
Who acts: Dick · What happens: not know, do · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Kitchen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 Dick | nsubj |
| 2 | tor | tor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 They | appos |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 tor | punct |
| 4 | ment | ment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ed | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 ment | punct |
| 6 | ed | ed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Dick | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 Dick | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 know | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 know | advmod |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Dick | conj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 do | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 know | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Dick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | Dick | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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