Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of William Tell., sentence 11
No one in all the land could shoot with bow and arrow so well as he.
Who acts: one · What happens: shoot, arrow
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 (one), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shoot | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 land | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 land | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 land | det |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 one | nmod |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 shoot | aux |
| 8 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 bow | case |
| 10 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shoot | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 arrow | cc |
| 12 | arrow | arrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 shoot | conj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 well | advmod |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 arrow | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 he | case |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 arrow | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shoot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | could | no one in all land | with bow | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with bow=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | arrow | present | no one in all land not said here | as William; well property | 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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