Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 2

He was not only brave and noble, but he was also handsome and polite; and for that reason the queen made him a knight, and called him Sir Walter Ra-leigh.

Who acts: man, queen · What happens: not be, be, make, call · To what, where: knight, man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man, queen), 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 brave	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brave	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 brave	advmod
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 brave	advmod
5	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 noble	cc
7	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brave	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 handsome	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 handsome	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 handsome	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 handsome	cop
12	also	also	ADV	_	13 handsome	advmod
13	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 brave	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 polite	cc
15	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 handsome	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 made	cc
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 reason	case
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 reason	det
20	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 queen	det
22	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	nsubj
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brave	parataxis
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 made	obj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 knight	det
26	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 called	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 called	cc
29	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 made	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 called	obj
31	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Walter	nmod:desc
32	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 called	xcomp
33	Ra	Ra	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Walter	flat
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 leigh	punct
35	leigh	Leigh	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Walter	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 brave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	man			brave property	tree rules
2	be		man not said here				tree rules
3	is	past	man			handsome property	tree rules
4	be		man not said here				tree rules
5	make	past	the queen	a knight	man	for that reason	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary knight=Product for reason=Asset
6	call	past	the queen not said here		man		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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