Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 40

He lost all the lands that his father had left him, and was at last shut up in prison, where he was kept until he died.

Who acts: Robert · What happens: lose, leave, shut up, be, keep, die · To what, where: lands, that, Robert, last shut prison

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 (Robert), 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	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 lands	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lands	det
5	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lost	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 left	nsubj:pass
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 left	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 left	aux
10	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 lands	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 left	iobj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 prison	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 prison	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 prison	cop
15	at	at	ADP	_	20 prison	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 prison	amod
17	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 prison	amod
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 shut	compound:prt
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 prison	case
20	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 kept	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 kept	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 kept	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 kept	aux:pass
25	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 prison	conj
26	until	until	SCONJ	_	28 died	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 died	nsubj
28	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 kept	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	lose	past	Robert	all lands			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Eventuality
2	leave	past · perfect · passive		that	Robert		vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute
3	shut up	participle					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	past				last shut prison	tree rules
5	keep	past · passive		Robert			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	die	past	Robert				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «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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