Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 1

There once lived in England a brave and noble man whose name was Walter Ra-leigh.

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

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Walter Raleigh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, Walter), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 lived	expl
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 lived	advmod
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 England	case
5	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
7	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 noble	cc
9	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brave	conj
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
11	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	12 name	nmod:poss
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Walter	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Walter	cop
14	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 man	acl:relcl
15	Ra	Ra	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Walter	flat
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 leigh	punct
17	leigh	Leigh	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Walter	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

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