Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sword of Damocles., sentence 2
He was so unjust and cruel that he won for himself the name of tyrant.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, win, name · To what, where: name, tyrant
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 (king), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 unjust | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 unjust | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 unjust | advmod |
| 4 | unjust | unjust | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cruel | cc |
| 6 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 unjust | conj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 won | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 won | nsubj |
| 9 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 unjust | advcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 himself | case |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 won | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 name | det |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 won | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 tyrant | case |
| 15 | tyrant | tyrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 name | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 unjust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | king | unjust property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | king not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | win | past | king | the name of tyrant | for king | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent name=Theme for himself=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | name | tyrant | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/33/2/