Kings, queens and emperors, sentence 11

Henry VIII was tall, strong and sporty as a young king; he grew very heavy later, after a bad jousting accident in 1536 (jousting is knights on horses charging at each other with long poles) and years of a painful leg wound.

Who acts: Henry, horses · What happens: be, grow, joust, charge · To what, where: knights, each

This is a sentence of the lesson «Kings, queens and emperors» of the myths course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Henry, horses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tall	nsubj
2	VIII	VIII	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	1 Henry	flat
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tall	cop
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 strong	punct
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tall	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sporty	cc
8	sporty	sporty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tall	conj
9	as	as	ADP	_	12 king	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 king	det
11	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 king	amod
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sporty	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 grew	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 grew	nsubj
15	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tall	parataxis
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 heavy	advmod
17	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grew	xcomp
18	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 grew	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 knights	punct
20	after	after	ADP	_	24 accident	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 accident	det
22	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 accident	amod
23	jousting	joust	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 accident	compound
24	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grew	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 1536	case
26	1536	1536	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 accident	nmod
27	(	(	PUNCT	_	28 jousting	punct
28	jousting	joust	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 knights	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 knights	cop
30	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tall	parataxis
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 horses	case
32	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 knights	nmod
33	charging	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 horses	acl
34	at	at	ADP	_	35 each	case
35	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	33 charging	obl
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 each	fixed
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 poles	case
38	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 poles	amod
39	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 charging	obl
40	)	)	PUNCT	_	30 knights	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 years	cc
42	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 accident	conj
43	of	of	ADP	_	47 wound	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 wound	det
45	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 wound	amod
46	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 wound	compound
47	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 years	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 tall	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Henry				tall property	tree rules
2	be		Henry not said here					tree rules
3	be		Henry not said here				as a young king	tree rules
4	grow	past	Henry			after a bad jousting accident in 1536 and years of a painful leg wound	heavy, late property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	joust	gerund						vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present		knights			on horses	tree rules
7	charge	gerund	horses not said here		each		with long poles	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at each=Trajectory

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:myths:019-kings-queens-and-emperors.lesson:11.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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