Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the Three Questions., sentence 32
But not one of the teachers in that great school could help him.
Who acts: one · What happens: help · To what, where: head
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 help | cc |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 one | advmod |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 help | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 teachers | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 teachers | det |
| 6 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 one | nmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 school | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 school | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 school | amod |
| 10 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 teachers | nmod |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 help | aux |
| 12 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 help | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | could | one of the teachers in that great school | head | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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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