Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 83

It is not a very well written poem, and yet everybody has read it, and thousands of people have learned it by heart.

Who acts: bi, written poem, heart · What happens: write, not be, read, learn · To what, where: written poem, everybody, thousands

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 (bi, written poem, heart), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 poem	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 poem	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 poem	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 poem	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 well	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 written	advmod
7	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 poem	amod
8	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 read	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 read	cc
11	yet	yet	ADV	_	14 read	advmod
12	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 read	nsubj:pass
13	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 read	aux
14	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 poem	acl:relcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 read	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 learned	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 learned	cc
18	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 learned	nsubj:pass
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 people	case
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 thousands	nmod
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 learned	aux
22	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 poem	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 learned	obj
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 heart	case
25	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 learned	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 poem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	write	participle				well property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is a	present	bi	a written poem			tree rules
3	read	present · perfect · passive	a written poem not said here	everybody	yet		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient it=Topic
4	learn	present · perfect · passive	heart	thousands of people			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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