Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 34
He will be loved at home, and re-spect-ed abroad; and he will die in peace after having gained great pos-ses-sions."
Who acts: Henry, great pos ses · What happens: love, re-spect-, die, have, gain · To what, where: Henry, home, great pos ses
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sons of William the Conqueror.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Henry, great pos ses), 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 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 loved | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 loved | aux:pass |
| 4 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loved | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 re-spect-ed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 re-spect-ed | cc |
| 9 | re-spect-ed | re-spect- | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 loved | conj |
| 10 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 9 re-spect-ed | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 die | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 die | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 die | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 die | aux |
| 15 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 loved | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 peace | case |
| 17 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 die | obl |
| 18 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 19 having | mark |
| 19 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 die | advcl |
| 20 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 having | xcomp |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ses | amod |
| 22 | pos | pos | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ses | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 pos | punct |
| 24 | ses | s | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 having | obj |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 sions | punct |
| 26 | sions | sion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ses | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 die | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | future · passive | Henry | home | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | re-spect- | participle | abroad property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | die | future | Henry | in peace | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in peace=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | have | gerund | Henry not said here | great pos ses and sions | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | gain | participle | great pos ses and sions not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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