Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Canute on the Seashore., sentence 28
There is only one King who is all-powerful; and it is he who rules the sea, and holds the ocean in the hollow of his hand.
Who acts: one, King, lesson · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: rules, ocean, hollow
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Canute on the Seashore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, King, lesson), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 one | advmod |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 powerful | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 powerful | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 powerful | cop |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 powerful | advmod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 all | punct |
| 10 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 one | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 rules | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rules | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rules | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 rules | cop |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 rules | nsubj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 rules | nsubj |
| 17 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 is | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sea | det |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rules | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 holds | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 holds | cc |
| 22 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ocean | det |
| 24 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 holds | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 hollow | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hollow | det |
| 27 | hollow | hollow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 holds | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 hand | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 hand | nmod:poss |
| 30 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hollow | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | one | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | King | powerful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | lesson | rules and the sea | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hold | present | one not said here | the ocean | the hollow of king's hand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ocean=Theme in hollow=Location |
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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