Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 2

He lived with his grand-fa-ther, for his own father was dead.

Who acts: boy, own father · What happens: live, be

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 (boy, own father), 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 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	9 ther	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 ther	nmod:poss
5	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ther	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 grand	punct
7	fa	fa	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ther	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 fa	punct
9	ther	ther	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dead	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	16 dead	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 father	amod
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dead	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 dead	cop
16	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lived	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	boy					with boy's grand fa ther	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with ther=Location
2	is	past	boy's own father					dead property	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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