Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Damon and Pythias., sentence 1
A young man whose name was Pyth'i-as had done something which the tyrant Dionysius did not like.
Who acts: name, Pyth'i · What happens: be, do, not like, name · To what, where: Pyth'i, tyrant
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Damon and Pythias.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, Pyth'i), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 5 name | nmod:poss |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Pyth'i | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Pyth'i | cop |
| 7 | Pyth'i | Pyth'i | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 man | acl:relcl |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 something | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 done | mark |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | aux |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 something | amod |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 man | conj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 like | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tyrant | det |
| 15 | tyrant | tyrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 like | obj |
| 16 | Dionysius | Dionysius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 tyrant | appos |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 like | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 like | advmod |
| 19 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 something | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Pyth'i's name | Pyth'i | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not like | past · do-support | the tyrant | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | name | Pyth'i | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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