Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Concerning These Stories., sentence 8
As a matter of course, some of these stories are better known, and therefore more _famous_, than others.
Who acts: some, course · What happens: be, matter
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Concerning These Stories.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some, course), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 matter | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 matter | det |
| 3 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 better | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 course | case |
| 5 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 matter | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 matter | punct |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 better | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 stories | case |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 stories | det |
| 10 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 some | nmod |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 better | cop |
| 12 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 13 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 better | cop |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 famous | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 famous | cc |
| 16 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 17 more | advmod |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 famous | advmod |
| 18 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 17 more | punct |
| 19 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 better | conj |
| 20 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 19 famous | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 others | punct |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 others | case |
| 23 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 famous | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | some | as a matter of course; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | some not said here | than others | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | matter | course | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=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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