Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 155

And he cher-ished Picciola as a dear, loved friend whom he could never forget.

Who acts: Charney · What happens: ish, love, not forget · To what, where: Picciola, dear loved friend

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 ished	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ished	nsubj
3	cher	cher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ished	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 cher	punct
5	ished	ish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	Picciola	Picciola	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ished	obj
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 friend	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 friend	det
9	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 friend	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 loved	punct
11	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 friend	amod
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ished	advcl
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 forget	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 forget	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 forget	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 forget	advmod
17	forget	forget	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 friend	acl:relcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ish	participle	Charney	Picciola	tree rules
2	love	participle			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
3	not forget	could	Charney	a dear loved friend	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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