Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of William Tell., sentence 2

Many years ago a proud tyrant, whose name was Gessler, ruled over them, and made their lot a bitter one indeed.

Who acts: name, Gessler · What happens: be, rule, make, name · To what, where: Gessler, lot

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 (name, Gessler), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 years	amod
2	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ago	obl:unmarked
3	ago	ago	ADV	_	13 ruled	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tyrant	det
5	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tyrant	amod
6	tyrant	tyrant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ago	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Gessler	punct
8	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	9 name	nmod:poss
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Gessler	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 Gessler	cop
11	Gessler	Gessler	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 tyrant	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ruled	punct
13	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	over	over	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ruled	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 made	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 made	cc
18	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ruled	conj
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 lot	nmod:poss
20	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	obj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 one	det
22	bitter	bitter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 one	amod
23	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 made	xcomp
24	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	18 made	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 ruled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Gessler's name	Gessler		tree rules
2	rule	past			over people; ago property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	make	past		people's lot	indeed property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lot=Product
4	name		Gessler			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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