Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 33

And Richard Whittington became a great merchant, and was one of the foremost men in London.

Who acts: Richard · What happens: become, be · To what, where: great merchant, one

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Richard), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 became	cc
2	Richard	Richard	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 became	nsubj
3	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Richard	flat
4	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 merchant	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 merchant	amod
7	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 became	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 one	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 one	cop
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 became	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 men	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 men	det
14	foremost	foremost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 men	amod
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 one	nmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 London	case
17	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 men	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	Richard	a great merchant					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past		one				of the foremost men in London	tree rules

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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