Fifty Famous Stories Retold, III. the Venture., sentence 21
At last Dick could not stand her abuse any longer, and he made up his mind to go back to his old home in the little country town.
Who acts: Dick, cat · What happens: not stand, make up, go back, abuse, mind · To what, where: abuse, last Dick, mind, little country town
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, III. the Venture.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick, cat), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 Dick | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Dick | amod |
| 3 | Dick | Dick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stand | obl |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 stand | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 stand | advmod |
| 6 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 abuse | nmod:poss |
| 8 | abuse | abuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stand | obj |
| 9 | any | any | ADV | _ | 10 longer | advmod |
| 10 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 stand | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stand | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 made | compound:prt |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mind | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 made | advcl |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 go | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 home | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 home | nmod:poss |
| 23 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 home | amod |
| 24 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 town | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 town | det |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 town | amod |
| 28 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 town | compound |
| 29 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stand | could | cat's abuse | last Dick | long property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent abuse=Theme at dick=Destination | |||
| 2 | make up | past | Dick | Dick's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | go back | to-infinitive | Dick not said here | the little country town | to Dick's old home result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result | |||
| 4 | abuse | cat | nom abuse «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | mind | Dick | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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