Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 3

His grand-fa-ther was a stone-cut-ter, and he was very poor.

Who acts: grand fa ther, boy · What happens: be · To what, where: cut ter

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 (grand fa ther, boy), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ther	nmod:poss
2	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ther	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 grand	punct
4	fa	fa	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ther	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 fa	punct
6	ther	ther	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ter	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ter	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 ter	det
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cut	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 stone	punct
11	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ter	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 cut	punct
13	ter	ter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 poor	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 poor	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 poor	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 poor	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 poor	advmod
19	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ter	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 ter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	boy's grand fa ther	a cut ter					tree rules
2	is	past	boy					poor 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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