Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sword of Damocles., sentence 3
He knew that almost everybody hated him, and so he was always in dread lest some one should take his life.
Who acts: king, everybody, one · What happens: know, hate, be, take · To what, where: king, dread, life
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, everybody, one), 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:pg18442:1008): 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 hated | mark |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 everybody | advmod |
| 5 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 hated | nsubj |
| 6 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | ccomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hated | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dread | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dread | cc |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 dread | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dread | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dread | cop |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 dread | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 dread | case |
| 15 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | conj |
| 16 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 20 take | mark |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 take | aux |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 dread | advcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 life | nmod:poss |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | king | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | hate | past | everybody | king | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | king | dread | always property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | take | should | some one | king's life | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
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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