Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the Three Questions., sentence 2

He was a bad king; for he was harsh and cruel to his people, and so long as he could have his own way, he did not care what became of other folks.

Who acts: king · What happens: be, have, not care, become · To what, where: bad king, own way

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, I. the Three Questions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	5 king	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 king	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 king	det
4	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 king	amod
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 harsh	punct
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 harsh	case
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 harsh	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 harsh	cop
10	harsh	harsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 king	parataxis
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cruel	cc
12	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 harsh	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 people	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 people	nmod:poss
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cruel	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 long	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 long	cc
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 long	advmod
19	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 harsh	advmod
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 have	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 have	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 have	aux
23	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 long	advcl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 way	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 way	amod
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 care	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 care	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 care	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 care	advmod
31	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 harsh	conj
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 became	nsubj
33	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 care	ccomp
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 folks	case
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 folks	amod
36	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 became	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 king	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	king	a bad king		tree rules
2	is	past	king		harsh, long property	tree rules
3	be		king not said here		to king's people	tree rules
4	have	could	king	king's own way		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
5	not care	past · do-support	king			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	become	past			of other folks	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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