Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 1

In Scotland, in the time of King Robert Bruce, there lived a brave man whose name was Doug-las.

Who acts: brave man, Doug las · What happens: live, be, name · To what, where: Scotland, Doug las

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Black Douglas.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brave man, Doug las), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 Scotland	case
2	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 lived	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Scotland	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lived	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Robert	case
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Robert	nmod:desc
9	Robert	Robert	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 time	nmod
10	Bruce	Bruce	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Robert	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 time	punct
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 lived	expl
13	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 las	nsubj
17	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	18 name	nmod:poss
18	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 las	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 las	cop
20	Doug	Doug	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 las	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 Doug	punct
22	las	la	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lived	parataxis
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	live	past			Scotland; there	time	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in scotland=Location
2	is a	past	a brave man	Doug las			tree rules
3	name		Doug las				nom name «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.

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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