Fifty Famous Stories Retold, How Napoleon Crossed the Alps., sentence 2
He was the leader of the French army; and France was at war with nearly all the countries around.
Who acts: Bo'na, France · What happens: be · To what, where: leader, war
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 (Bo'na, France), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 leader | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 leader | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 leader | det |
| 4 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 army | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 army | det |
| 7 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 army | amod |
| 8 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leader | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 war | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 France | cc |
| 11 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 war | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 war | cop |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 war | case |
| 14 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leader | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 countries | case |
| 16 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 17 all | advmod |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 countries | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 countries | det |
| 19 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 war | nmod |
| 20 | around | around | ADV | _ | 14 war | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leader | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Bo'na | the leader and war | of the French army | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | France | war | with all countries; around 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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