Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Laconic Answer., sentence 8
Philip of Mac-e-don wanted to become the master of all Greece.
Who acts: Philip · What happens: want, become · To what, where: master
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 (Philip), 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 | Philip | Philip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 don | case |
| 3 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 don | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Mac | punct |
| 5 | e | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 don | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 e | punct |
| 7 | don | don | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Philip | nmod |
| 8 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 become | mark |
| 10 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wanted | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 master | det |
| 12 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 become | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Greece | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 Greece | det |
| 15 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 master | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | Philip of Mac e don | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | become not said to happen | to-infinitive | Philip of Mac e don not said here | the master of all Greece | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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