Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 34
He was sheriff of the city, and thrice lord mayor; and King Henry V. made him a knight.
Who acts: Richard, Henry · What happens: be, make · To what, where: sheriff, knight, Richard
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Richard, Henry), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sheriff | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sheriff | cop |
| 3 | sheriff | sheriff | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sheriff | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mayor | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mayor | cc |
| 9 | thrice | thrice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mayor | amod |
| 10 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mayor | compound |
| 11 | mayor | mayor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sheriff | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 made | cc |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Henry | nmod:desc |
| 15 | Henry | Henry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 made | nsubj |
| 16 | V. | V. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Henry | flat |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sheriff | acl:relcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 made | obj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 knight | det |
| 20 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sheriff | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Richard | sheriff and thrice lord mayor | of the city | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | past | Henry King | a knight | Richard | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary knight=Product |
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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