Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sword of Damocles., sentence 19
It was a sharp sword, and it was hung by only a single horse-hair.
Who acts: ceiling, single horse hair · What happens: be, hang · To what, where: sharp sword, ceiling
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: who acts (ceiling, single horse hair), 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 | 5 sword | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sword | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sword | det |
| 4 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sword | amod |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hung | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 hung | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hung | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hung | aux:pass |
| 10 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sword | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 hair | case |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 hair | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hair | det |
| 14 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hair | amod |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hair | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 horse | punct |
| 17 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hung | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sword | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | ceiling | a sharp sword | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hang | past · passive | a single horse hair | ceiling | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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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