Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 1
In Rome there was once a poor slave whose name was An'dro-clus.
Who acts: poor slave, name, An'dro clus · What happens: be, name · To what, where: Rome, An'dro clus
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Androclus and the Lion.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor slave, name, An'dro clus), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Rome | case |
| 2 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 was | obl |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 slave | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 slave | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 slave | amod |
| 8 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 name | nmod:poss |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 clus | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 clus | cop |
| 12 | An'dro | An'dro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 clus | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 clus | punct |
| 14 | clus | clus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slave | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a poor slave | Rome; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rome=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | An'dro clus's name | An'dro clus | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name | An'dro clus | 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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