Kings, queens and emperors, sentence 6
The "tiny Napoleon" idea grew from British cartoons that mocked him, from French inches being longer than English ones, and from his nickname "the little corporal" (a corporal is a low army rank), which was a friendly name, not a measurement.
Who acts: Napoleon idea, British cartoons, French inches, corporal, low army rank, idea · What happens: grow, mock, be, nickname · To what, where: idea, low army rank, friendly name
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 (Napoleon idea, British cartoons, French inches, corporal), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 idea | det |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Napoleon | punct |
| 3 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Napoleon | amod |
| 4 | Napoleon | Napoleon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 idea | compound |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Napoleon | punct |
| 6 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grew | nsubj |
| 7 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 cartoons | case |
| 9 | British | British | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cartoons | amod |
| 10 | cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grew | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 mocked | nsubj |
| 12 | mocked | mock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cartoons | acl:relcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 mocked | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 inches | punct |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 inches | case |
| 16 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 inches | amod |
| 17 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cartoons | conj |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 longer | cop |
| 19 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 inches | acl |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 ones | case |
| 21 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ones | amod |
| 22 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 longer | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 nickname | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 nickname | cc |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 nickname | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 nickname | nmod:poss |
| 27 | nickname | nickname | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cartoons | conj |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 corporal | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 corporal | det |
| 30 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 corporal | amod |
| 31 | corporal | corporal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 nickname | appos |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 corporal | punct |
| 33 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 40 rank | punct |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 corporal | det |
| 35 | corporal | corporal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 rank | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 rank | cop |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 rank | det |
| 38 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 rank | amod |
| 39 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 rank | compound |
| 40 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 nickname | appos |
| 41 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 40 rank | punct |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 name | punct |
| 43 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 name | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 name | cop |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 name | det |
| 46 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 name | amod |
| 47 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 rank | conj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 measurement | punct |
| 49 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 51 measurement | advmod |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 51 measurement | det |
| 51 | measurement | measurement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 rank | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the Napoleon idea | from British cartoons and French inches and idea's nickname | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from cartoon=Patient | ||||
| 2 | mock | past | British cartoons and French inches and idea's nickname | idea | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | French inches not said here | than English ones; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | a corporal | a low army rank and a friendly name and a measurement | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | a low army rank and a friendly name and a measurement | a friendly name | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | nickname | idea | nom nickname «communication transitive»: poss=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.
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:6.
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): 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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