Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 87
"Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm-- A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form."
Who acts: beautiful · What happens: stand, bear, rule · To what, where: storm
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 (beautiful), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
| 2 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 7 stood | cc |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bright | cc |
| 5 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 beautiful | conj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 born | punct |
| 9 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 born | mark |
| 10 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stood | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 rule | mark |
| 12 | rule | rule | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 born | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 storm | det |
| 14 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rule | obj |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 creature | punct |
| 16 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 creature | det |
| 17 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 storm | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 blood | case |
| 19 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 blood | amod |
| 20 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 creature | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 proud | punct |
| 22 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 proud | det |
| 23 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 born | parataxis |
| 24 | though | though | ADP | _ | 26 form | case |
| 25 | childlike | childlike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 form | amod |
| 26 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 proud | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand in a quote | past | beautiful | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | bear in a quote | participle | beautiful not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | rule in a quote | to-infinitive | beautiful not said here | the storm | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=Theme |
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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