Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 21
It was the law at that time that every slave who ran away from his master should be made to fight a hungry lion.
Who acts: slave · What happens: be, run away, make, fight · To what, where: law, slave, hungry lion
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 (slave), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 law | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 law | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 law | det |
| 4 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 law | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 made | obj |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 slave | det |
| 10 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 ran | nsubj |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 slave | acl:relcl |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 ran | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 master | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 master | nmod:poss |
| 16 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 away | obl |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 made | aux:pass |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 law | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 fight | mark |
| 21 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 made | xcomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 lion | det |
| 23 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lion | amod |
| 24 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fight | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 law | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the law | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run away | past | every slave | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | should · passive | every slave | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fight | to-infinitive | every slave not said here | a hungry lion | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Co-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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