Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 3
They hated the king, for they knew that he was a cruel, bad man.
Who acts: men, king · What happens: hate, know, be · To what, where: king, cruel bad man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Other Wise Men of Gotham.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hated | nsubj |
| 2 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hated | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 knew | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 knew | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hated | parataxis |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 man | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 man | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 man | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 13 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cruel | punct |
| 15 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knew | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | past | men = man | the king | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | know | past | men = man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | king | a cruel bad man | 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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