Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 154
He saw how God had cared for him and the little plant, and how kind and true are the hearts of even rough men.
Who acts: Charney, hearts · What happens: see, care, be · To what, where: God · 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, hearts), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 cared | advmod |
| 4 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cared | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cared | aux |
| 6 | cared | care | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 saw | ccomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cared | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 plant | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 plant | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 plant | amod |
| 12 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 him | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 kind | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 kind | cc |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 kind | advmod |
| 16 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 saw | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 true | cc |
| 18 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 kind | conj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 kind | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hearts | det |
| 21 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 kind | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 men | case |
| 23 | even | even | ADV | _ | 25 men | advmod |
| 24 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 men | amod |
| 25 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 hearts | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Charney | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | care | past · perfect · passive | God | for Charney | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the hearts of rough men | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the hearts of rough men not said here | 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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