Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Canute on the Seashore., sentence 3
The great men and of-fi-cers who were around King Canute were always praising him.
Who acts: fi cers · What happens: praise · To what, where: king, King Canute
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 (fi cers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cers | cc |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 cers | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 of | punct |
| 7 | fi | fi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cers | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 fi | punct |
| 9 | cers | cer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 men | conj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 praising | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 praising | aux |
| 12 | around | around | ADP | _ | 14 Canute | case |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Canute | compound |
| 14 | Canute | Canute | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 praising | obl |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 praising | aux |
| 16 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 17 praising | advmod |
| 17 | praising | praise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cers | acl:relcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 praising | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 men | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | past · progressive | fi cers | king | King Canute | always property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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