Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 2
He led his army into China and Persia, and he con-quered many lands.
Who acts: Gen'ghis · What happens: lead, quer · To what, where: army, China, many lands
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 led | nsubj |
| 2 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 army | nmod:poss |
| 4 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 led | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 China | case |
| 6 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 led | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Persia | cc |
| 8 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 China | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 quered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 quered | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 quered | nsubj |
| 12 | con | con | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 quered | nsubj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 con | punct |
| 14 | quered | quer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 led | conj |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lands | amod |
| 16 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 quered | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | Gen'ghis | Gen'ghis's army | China and Persia | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent army=Theme into china=Destination | |||
| 2 | quer | past | Gen'ghis | many lands | 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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