Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Humphrey Gilbert., sentence 1

More than three hundred years ago there lived in England a brave man whose name was Sir Humphrey Gil-bert.

Who acts: name, Humphrey bert · What happens: live, be, name · To what, where: brave man, England, Humphrey bert

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Humphrey Gilbert.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, Humphrey bert), 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	More	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	4 hundred	advmod
2	than	than	ADP	_	1 More	fixed
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hundred	compound
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 years	nummod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lived	obl:unmarked
6	ago	ago	ADV	_	5 years	advmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 lived	advmod
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 England	case
10	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
14	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	15 name	nmod:poss
15	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bert	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 bert	cop
17	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Humphrey	nmod:desc
18	Humphrey	Humphrey	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 bert	compound
19	Gil	Gil	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Humphrey	flat
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 bert	punct
21	bert	bert	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 man	acl:relcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	live	past		a brave man	England; there	year	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in england=Location
2	is a	past	Humphrey bert's name	Humphrey bert			tree rules
3	name		Humphrey bert				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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