Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 15

A great many songs were made up about Robin Hood, and these songs were sung in the cot-ta-ges and huts all over the land for hundreds of years after-ward.

What happens: make up, sing · To what, where: great many songs, songs, ta ges

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Story of Robin Hood.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 songs	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 songs	amod
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 songs	amod
4	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux:pass
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 made	compound:prt
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 Hood	case
9	Robin	Robin	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Hood	compound
10	Hood	Hood	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sung	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sung	cc
13	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 songs	det
14	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sung	nsubj:pass
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sung	aux:pass
16	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 made	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	23 ges	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ges	det
19	cot	cot	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ta	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 cot	punct
21	ta	ta	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ges	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 ta	punct
23	ges	ge	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sung	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 huts	cc
25	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 ges	conj
26	all	all	ADV	_	29 land	advmod
27	over	over	ADP	_	29 land	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 land	det
29	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sung	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 hundreds	case
31	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sung	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 years	case
33	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 hundreds	nmod
34	after	after	ADP	_	36 ward	case
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 after	punct
36	ward	ward	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sung	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past · passive		a great many songs				about Robin Hood	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot
2	sing speech: express	past · passive		this songs		the ta ges and huts	after ward	over the land; for hundreds of years	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for hundred=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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