Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 66

He did not know that his father was lying in the burning cabin below, that a cannon ball had struck him dead at the very be-gin-ning of the fight.

Who acts: father · What happens: not know, lie, strike, be · To what, where: burning cabin, cannon ball, gin ning · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 know	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 know	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 know	advmod
4	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 lying	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lying	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lying	aux
9	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 know	ccomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 cabin	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cabin	det
12	burning	burning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cabin	compound
13	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lying	obl
14	below	below	ADV	_	13 cabin	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 struck	punct
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 struck	mark
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 ball	det
18	cannon	cannon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ball	compound
19	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 struck	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 struck	aux
21	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 know	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 struck	obj
23	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 struck	xcomp
24	at	at	ADP	_	31 ning	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 ning	det
26	very	very	ADV	_	31 ning	advmod
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 ning	cop
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 gin	punct
29	gin	gin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ning	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 gin	punct
31	ning	ning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 struck	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 fight	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fight	det
34	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ning	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	father				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	lie	past · progressive	father's father		the burning cabin		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cabin=Location
3	strike	past · perfect · passive		a cannon ball		dead property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient he=Result
4	is	infinitive			the gin ning	of the fight	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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