Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Alexander and Bucephalus., sentence 25

Alexander became the most famous king and warrior that was ever known; and for that reason he is always called Alexander the Great.

Who acts: Alexander · What happens: become, know, call · To what, where: famous king, warrior, Alexander · 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 (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	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 became	nsubj
2	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 famous	advmod
5	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 king	amod
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 became	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 warrior	cc
8	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 king	conj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 known	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 known	aux:pass
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 known	advmod
12	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 warrior	acl:relcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 called	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 called	cc
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 reason	case
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 reason	det
17	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 called	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 called	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 called	aux:pass
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 called	advmod
21	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 became	conj
22	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 called	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Great	det
24	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Alexander	amod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	Alexander	the famous king and warrior			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	know	past · passive		warrior	ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
3	call	present · passive		Alexander		for that reason; always property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for reason=Beneficiary

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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