Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 42

And so, since nothing else could be done, the man allowed him to try.

Who acts: man · What happens: do, allow, try · To what, where: nothing, boy

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 (man), 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	_	9 done	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	9 done	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 nothing	punct
4	since	since	ADP	_	5 nothing	case
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 done	nsubj:pass
6	else	else	ADV	_	5 nothing	advmod
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 done	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 done	aux:pass
9	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 allowed	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 allowed	nsubj
13	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 done	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 allowed	iobj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 try	mark
16	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 allowed	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	do	could · passive		nothing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	allow	past	the man		boy	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer he=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
3	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	the man not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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