Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Alexander and Bucephalus., sentence 22
After that, Alexander and Bucephalus were the best of friends.
Who acts: Alexander · What happens: be
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 (Alexander), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 best | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 that | punct |
| 4 | Alexander | Alexander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 best | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Bucephalus | cc |
| 6 | Bucephalus | Bucephalus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Alexander | conj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 best | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 best | det |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 friends | case |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 best | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 best | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Alexander and Bucephalus | after that | of friends; good property | tree rules |
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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