Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 139

It was a hard thing for Charney to do,--to ask a favor of the man whom he hated, the man who had shut him up in this very prison.

Who acts: plant, Charney, man · What happens: be, --, ask, hate, shut up, favor · To what, where: hard thing, favor, man, Charney, prison

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 (plant, Charney, man), 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	5 thing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 --	mark
7	Charney	Charney	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 --	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 --	aux
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 --	punct
11	--	--	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thing	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 ask	mark
13	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 --	xcomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 favor	det
15	favor	favor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ask	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 man	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 favor	nmod
19	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 hated	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hated	nsubj
21	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 man	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 man	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 man	det
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 favor	appos
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 shut	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 shut	aux
27	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 man	acl:relcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 shut	obj
29	up	up	ADP	_	27 shut	compound:prt
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 prison	case
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 prison	det
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 prison	advmod
33	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shut	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	plant	a hard thing		tree rules
2	--	infinitive · do-support	Charney			tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	Charney not said here	a favor of the man		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favor=Recipient
4	hate	past	Charney	the man		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
5	shut up	past · perfect	the man	Charney	this prison	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	favor			the man		nom favor «act transitive»: of=patient

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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