Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 140

But for the sake of Picciola he would do it.

Who acts: PICCIOLA · What happens: do · To what, where: plant

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 (PICCIOLA), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 do	cc
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 sake	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sake	det
4	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Picciola	case
6	Picciola	Picciola	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sake	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 do	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	would	PICCIOLA	plant				for the sake of Picciola	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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