Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 3

In every country, men told about his daring deeds; and they said that since Alexander the Great there had been no king like him.

Who acts: men, daring, king, Gen'ghis · What happens: tell, deed, say, be, dare · To what, where: country · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (men, daring, king, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 country	case
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 country	det
3	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 told	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 country	punct
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	about	about	SCONJ	_	10 deeds	mark
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 daring	nmod:poss
9	daring	daring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 deeds	nsubj
10	deeds	deed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 told	ccomp
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 been	mark
16	since	since	ADP	_	17 Alexander	case
17	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 been	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Great	det
19	Great	Great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Alexander	appos
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 been	expl
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 been	aux
22	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 said	ccomp
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 king	det
24	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 been	nsubj
25	like	like	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 been	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	men	every country			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	deed	present	Gen'ghis's daring				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	men = man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	be	past · perfect	no king	there	since Alexander	like Gen'ghis	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	dare		Gen'ghis				nom daring «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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