Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Julius Caesar., sentence 13
The may-or looked very proud and happy; for was he not the ruler of this village?
Who acts: may · What happens: look, not be · To what, where: ruler
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Julius Caesar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (may), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg18442:992): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 may | det |
| 2 | may | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 may | punct |
| 4 | or | or | X | _ | 2 may | goeswith |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 proud | advmod |
| 7 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 looked | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 happy | cc |
| 9 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 proud | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 ruler | punct |
| 11 | for | for | CCONJ | _ | 16 ruler | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ruler | cop |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ruler | nsubj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 ruler | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ruler | det |
| 16 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 village | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 village | det |
| 19 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ruler | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 ruler | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the may | proud property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not is a | past | may = mayor | the ruler | of this village | 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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