Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of William Tell., sentence 10
William Tell's home was among the mountains, and he was a famous hunter.
Who acts: William, home · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: famous hunter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of William Tell.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (William, home), 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 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tell | nsubj |
| 2 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Tell | case |
| 4 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mountains | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mountains | cop |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 mountains | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mountains | det |
| 8 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Tell | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hunter | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hunter | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hunter | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hunter | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 hunter | det |
| 14 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hunter | amod |
| 15 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tell | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | William | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | home | among the mountains | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | William | a famous hunter | tree rules |
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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