Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 128
Charney knew that there was but one way to save his treasure.
Who acts: Charney · What happens: know, be, save, treasure · To what, where: treasure · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charney), 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 | Charney | Charney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 was | mark |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 way | cc |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 way | nummod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 save | mark |
| 10 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 way | acl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 12 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 save | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Charney | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be | past | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | save | to-infinitive | Charney not said here | Charney's treasure | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | ||||
| 4 | treasure | Charney | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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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