Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 40

When King Henry heard of the death of his son his grief was more than he could bear.

Who acts: Henry, grief, man, son · What happens: hear, be, bear, die

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The White Ship.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Henry, grief, man, son), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Henry	nmod:desc
3	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 death	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 death	det
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 son	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 son	nmod:poss
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 death	nmod
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 grief	nmod:poss
12	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 more	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 more	cop
14	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 heard	obj
15	than	than	SCONJ	_	18 bear	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bear	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 bear	aux
18	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 more	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Henry King	of the death of man's son	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of death=Stimulus
2	is	past	man's grief	more property	tree rules
3	bear	could	man		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
4	die		man's son		nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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