Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Canute on the Seashore., sentence 7
The king was a man of sense, and he grew very tired of hearing such foolish speeches.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, grow, hear · To what, where: man, such foolish speeches
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sense | case |
| 7 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 grew | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 grew | nsubj |
| 11 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 tired | advmod |
| 13 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grew | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 hearing | mark |
| 15 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 tired | advcl |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 speeches | amod |
| 17 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 speeches | amod |
| 18 | speeches | speech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hearing | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the king | a man | of sense | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grow | past | king | a man not said here | tired property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme | |||
| 3 | hear | gerund | king not said here | such foolish speeches | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer speech=Stimulus |
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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