Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 1
Gen'ghis Khan was a great king and war-rior.
Who acts: Gen'ghis · What happens: be · To what, where: great king
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The King and His Hawk.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gen'ghis), 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 | Gen'ghis | Gen'ghis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 king | nsubj |
| 2 | Khan | Khan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Gen'ghis | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 king | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 king | amod |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rior | cc |
| 8 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rior | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 war | punct |
| 10 | rior | rior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 king | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Gen'ghis | a great king and war rior | 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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