Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 40
This was the kind of courage that made Rome the greatest city in the world.
Who acts: This, kind · What happens: be, make · To what, where: kind, greatest city, Rome, world
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of Regulus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, kind), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kind | det |
| 4 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 courage | case |
| 6 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kind | nmod |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | acl:relcl |
| 9 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 city | det |
| 11 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 city | amod |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the kind | of courage | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | past | the kind | the greatest city | Rome | the world | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset rome=Beneficiary city=Product |
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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