Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 72
He could not read, for there were no books in the prison.
Who acts: gentleman, books · What happens: not read, be
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 (gentleman, books), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 read | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 read | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 read | advmod |
| 4 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 were | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 were | mark |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 were | expl |
| 8 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 read | conj |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 books | det |
| 10 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 were | nsubj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 prison | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prison | det |
| 13 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 books | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not read | could | gentleman | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | be | past | no books in the prison | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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