Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Canute on the Seashore., sentence 8
One day he was by the sea-shore, and his of-fi-cers were with him.
Who acts: king, fi cers · What happens: be
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, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shore | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shore | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shore | cop |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 shore | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shore | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shore | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 sea | punct |
| 9 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 him | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 him | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 cers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 cers | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 of | punct |
| 15 | fi | fi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cers | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 fi | punct |
| 17 | cers | cer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 him | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 him | cop |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shore | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 shore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | king | day | by the sea shore | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | king's fi cers | with Canute | tree rules |
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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