Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Alexander and Bucephalus., sentence 3
But he was wild and savage, and no man could mount him, or do anything at all with him.
Who acts: King, man · What happens: be, mount, do · To what, where: King, anything, all
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, man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 wild | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wild | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wild | cop |
| 4 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 savage | cc |
| 6 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wild | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mount | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mount | cc |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mount | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 mount | aux |
| 12 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wild | parataxis |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 mount | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 do | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 do | cc |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 mount | conj |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 do | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 all | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 anything | nmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 do | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wild | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | King | wild property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | King not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | mount | could | no man | King | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | do | infinitive | no man not said here | anything | all | with King | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
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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