Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 2
No other man ever did so much for his country as he; and people now, all over the world, speak of him as Alfred the Great.
Who acts: other man, people · What happens: do, speak · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Cakes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other man, people), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 man | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 did | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 did | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 country | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 country | nmod:poss |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 he | case |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 country | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 speak | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 speak | cc |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 speak | nsubj |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 world | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 world | punct |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 21 world | advmod |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 world | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 world | det |
| 21 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 people | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 speak | punct |
| 23 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 did | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 speak | obl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 Alfred | case |
| 27 | Alfred | Alfred | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 speak | obl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Great | det |
| 29 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Alfred | amod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | no other man | ever | for man's country as king | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | infinitive | people over the world | of king; as Alfred | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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