Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 16
His fate was a warning to others, and it was a long time before another story-teller was so rash as to try the king's patience.
Who acts: fate, story teller, man · What happens: be, try, fate · To what, where: warning, long time, patience
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 (fate, story teller, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 fate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 warning | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 warning | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 warning | det |
| 5 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 others | case |
| 7 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 warning | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 time | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 time | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 time | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 warning | conj |
| 15 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 rash | mark |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 teller | det |
| 17 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 teller | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 story | punct |
| 19 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rash | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 rash | cop |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 rash | advmod |
| 22 | rash | rash | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | advcl |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 rash | fixed |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 try | mark |
| 25 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 rash | csubj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 king | det |
| 27 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 patience | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 king | case |
| 29 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 try | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 warning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | man's fate | a warning and a long time | to others | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | past | fate | a long time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | another story teller | rash property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | try | to-infinitive | the king's patience | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | fate | man | nom fate «event 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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