Fifty Famous Stories Retold, How Napoleon Crossed the Alps., sentence 1
About a hundred years ago there lived a great gen-er-al whose name was Na-po'le-on Bo'na-parte.
Who acts: name, Na po'le · What happens: live, be, name · To what, where: great gen er al, Na po'le, Bo'na
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, How Napoleon Crossed the Alps.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, Na po'le), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 hundred | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hundred | det |
| 3 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 years | advmod |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lived | advmod |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 al | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 al | amod |
| 10 | gen | gen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 al | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 gen | punct |
| 12 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 al | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 al | punct |
| 14 | al | al | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obj |
| 15 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 16 name | nmod:poss |
| 16 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 po'le | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 po'le | cop |
| 18 | Na | Na | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 po'le | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 po'le | punct |
| 20 | po'le | po'le | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 al | parataxis |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 Bo'na | punct |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 Bo'na | case |
| 23 | Bo'na | Bo'na | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 po'le | nmod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 parte | punct |
| 25 | parte | parte | X | Foreign=Yes | 23 Bo'na | dep |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a great gen er al | there | year | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme al=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Na po'le's name | Na po'le | Bo'na | tree rules | |||
| 3 | name | Na po'le | 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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