Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 3
He was a good friend of the king, and one of his strongest helpers.
Who acts: face · What happens: be · To what, where: good friend
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 (face), 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 | 5 friend | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 friend | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 friend | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 friend | amod |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 friend | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 one | cc |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 friend | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 helpers | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 helpers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 helpers | amod |
| 15 | helpers | helper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 one | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | face | a good friend | of the king | 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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