Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 70
His name was Char-ney, and he was very sad and un-hap-py.
Who acts: name, gentleman · What happens: be, name · To what, where: Char ney
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 (name, gentleman), 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 | 2 name | nmod:poss |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ney | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ney | cop |
| 4 | Char | Char | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ney | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 ney | punct |
| 6 | ney | ney | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sad | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sad | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sad | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sad | cop |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 sad | advmod |
| 12 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ney | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 un-hap-py | cc |
| 14 | un-hap-py | un-hap-py | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 sad | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ney | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | gentleman's name | Char ney | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | gentleman | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | gentleman not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | name | gentleman | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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