Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 30
For everything de-pend-ed on having the table nicely arranged.
Who acts: de pend ed · What happens: have, arrange · To what, where: table
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 (de pend ed), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 everything | case |
| 2 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 ed | obl |
| 3 | de | de | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ed | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 de | punct |
| 5 | pend | pend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ed | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ed | punct |
| 7 | ed | ed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 9 having | mark |
| 9 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 ed | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 table | det |
| 11 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 having | obj |
| 12 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 13 arranged | advmod |
| 13 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 having | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | de pend ed not said here | the table | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Patient | ||||
| 2 | arrange | participle | de pend ed not said here | nicely property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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