Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 223

The song which he liked best was one whose words he had never heard before.

Who acts: Wilhelm, song · What happens: like, be, not hear · To what, where: song, one, words

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 (Wilhelm, song), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 song	det
2	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	nsubj
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 liked	obj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 liked	nsubj
5	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 song	acl:relcl
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 liked	obj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 one	cop
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
9	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	10 words	nmod:poss
10	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 heard	nsubj:pass
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 heard	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 heard	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 heard	advmod
14	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 one	parataxis
15	before	before	ADV	_	14 heard	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like	past	Wilhelm	the song		tree rules
2	is a	past	the song	one		tree rules
3	not hear	past · perfect · passive		words	before property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus

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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