Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 1
In the Far East there was a great king who had no work to do.
Who acts: great king · What happens: be, have, do · To what, where: great king, Far East, work
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Endless Tale.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great king), 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 | _ | 4 East | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 East | det |
| 3 | Far | Far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 East | amod |
| 4 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 king | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 king | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 king | amod |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 king | acl:relcl |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 work | det |
| 13 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 work | acl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a great king | the Far East | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | a great king | no work | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | a great king not said here | no work not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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