Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 67
She was the daugh-ter of the king, and her name was Po-ca-hon'tas.
Who acts: girl, Po · What happens: be, name · To what, where: daugh ter, hon'tas
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 (girl, Po), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ter | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ter | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ter | det |
| 4 | daugh | daugh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ter | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 daugh | punct |
| 6 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 king | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ter | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 name | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 name | cc |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 name | nmod:poss |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hon'tas | parataxis |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 hon'tas | cop |
| 15 | Po | Po | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 hon'tas | nsubj |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Po | punct |
| 17 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 hon'tas | aux |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 hon'tas | punct |
| 19 | hon'tas | hon'ta | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ter | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | girl | the daugh ter | of the king | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | can · past | Po | hon'tas | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name | girl | 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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