Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Canute on the Seashore., sentence 9
They were praising him, as they were in the habit of doing.
Who acts: cers, habit · What happens: praise, be, do · To what, where: king, habit
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 (cers, habit), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 praising | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 praising | aux |
| 3 | praising | praise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 praising | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 habit | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 habit | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 habit | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 habit | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 habit | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 habit | det |
| 11 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 praising | obl |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 doing | mark |
| 13 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 habit | acl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 praising | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | praise | past · progressive | cers = cer | king | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | cers = cer | the habit | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | gerund | the habit not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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