Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Alexander and Bucephalus., sentence 1
One day King Philip bought a fine horse called Bu-ceph'a-lus.
Who acts: King, fine horse · What happens: buy, call · To what, where: fine horse, Bu ceph'a lus · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Alexander and Bucephalus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, fine horse), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bought | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bought | nsubj |
| 4 | Philip | Philip | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | flat |
| 5 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 horse | amod |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bought | obj |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 horse | acl |
| 10 | Bu | Bu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 lus | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Bu | punct |
| 12 | ceph'a | ceph'a | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lus | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 ceph'a | punct |
| 14 | lus | lu | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 called | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past | King | a fine horse | day | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | participle | a fine horse not said here | Bu ceph'a lus | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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