Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of William Tell., sentence 32
And there is an old story, that, not long after this, Tell did shoot the tyrant with one of his arrows; and thus he set his country free.
Who acts: tyrant · What happens: be, shoot, set · To what, where: tyrant, country
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 (tyrant), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 is | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Tell | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 story | amod |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 long | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 long | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 long | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 long | advmod |
| 11 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 story | advmod |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 this | case |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 long | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 15 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 shoot | advcl |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 shoot | aux |
| 17 | shoot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tyrant | det |
| 19 | tyrant | tyrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shoot | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 shoot | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 arrows | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 24 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 set | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 set | cc |
| 27 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 29 set | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 set | nsubj |
| 29 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 shoot | conj |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 country | nmod:poss |
| 31 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 set | obj |
| 32 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 set | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 shoot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | tell property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | shoot | past · do-support | the tyrant | with one of tyrant's arrows | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tyrant=Patient with one=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | set | past | tyrant | tyrant's country | free, thus property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient country=Result |
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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