Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 42
He had no more joy in life; and men say that no one ever saw him smile again.
Who acts: heart, men, one · What happens: have, say, see, smile · To what, where: more joy, life, man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (heart, men, one), 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 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | ADV | _ | 5 joy | advmod |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 joy | amod |
| 5 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 joy | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 say | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 say | cc |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 say | nsubj |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 saw | mark |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 saw | advmod |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 smile | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | obj |
| 18 | smile | smile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 say | ccomp |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 smile | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | heart | more joy | life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Patient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | men | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see | past | no one | man | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | smile | infinitive | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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