Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 52

His father had bidden him stand there, and he had been taught always to obey.

Who acts: father, son · What happens: bid, stand, teach, obey · To what, where: son

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 (father, son), 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	4 bidden	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bidden	aux
4	bidden	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bidden	obj
6	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bidden	xcomp
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 stand	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 taught	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 taught	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 taught	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 taught	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 taught	aux:pass
13	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bidden	parataxis
14	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	16 obey	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 obey	mark
16	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 taught	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bidden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bid	past · perfect	son's father	son			tree rules
2	stand	infinitive	son's father not said here		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		son			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	obey	to-infinitive	son not said here			always property	vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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