Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sword of Damocles., sentence 12
And so, the next day, Damocles was led into the palace, and all the servants were bidden to treat him as their master.
What happens: lead, bid, treat · To what, where: palace, servants, Damocles
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sword of Damocles.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 led | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 led | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 so | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 led | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 day | punct |
| 8 | Damocles | Damocles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 day | appos |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 led | aux:pass |
| 10 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 led | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bidden | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bidden | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 servants | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 servants | det |
| 18 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bidden | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 bidden | aux:pass |
| 20 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 led | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 treat | mark |
| 22 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 bidden | xcomp |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 treat | obj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 master | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 master | nmod:poss |
| 26 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 treat | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past · passive | the palace | day | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: into palace=Destination | ||||
| 2 | bid | past · passive | all servants | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | treat | to-infinitive | Damocles | as servants's master | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Theme as master=Attribute |
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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