Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Laconic Answer., sentence 7

There was in the northern part of Greece a land called Mac'e-don; and this land was at one time ruled over by a war-like king named Philip.

Who acts: land · What happens: be, call, rule over, name · To what, where: northern part, Mac'e don, one time, like king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Laconic Answer.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (land), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 part	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 part	det
5	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 part	amod
6	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Greece	case
8	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 part	nmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 land	det
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
11	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 land	acl
12	Mac'e	Mac'e	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 don	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Mac'e	punct
14	don	don	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 called	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 time	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 time	cc
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 land	det
18	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 time	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 time	cop
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 time	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 time	nummod
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
23	ruled	rule	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 time	acl
24	over	over	ADV	_	23 ruled	advmod
25	by	by	ADP	_	30 king	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 king	det
27	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 like	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 war	punct
29	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 king	amod
30	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ruled	obl
31	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 king	acl
32	Philip	Philip	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 named	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a land		the northern part of Greece; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location
2	call	participle	a land not said here	Mac'e don				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	this land			at one time		tree rules
4	rule over	participle		one time not said here			by a like king; over property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	name	participle		a like king not said here				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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