Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Bruce and the Spider., sentence 2
He had need to be both brave and wise, for the times in which he lived were wild and rude.
Who acts: king · What happens: need, be, live
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Bruce and the Spider.. 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 | 3 need | nsubj |
| 2 | had | had | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 need | aux |
| 3 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 brave | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 brave | cop |
| 6 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 7 brave | cc:preconj |
| 7 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 need | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wise | cc |
| 9 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 brave | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 times | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 times | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 times | det |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 wild | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 lived | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lived | nsubj |
| 17 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 times | acl:relcl |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wild | cop |
| 19 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 brave | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rude | cc |
| 21 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 brave | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 need | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | king | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | king not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | live | past | king | in the times | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 5 | is | past | king not said here | time | wild property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | be | king not said here | tree rules |
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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