Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 1
There was once a great king of England who was called Wil-liam the Con-quer-or, and he had three sons.
Who acts: great king, king · What happens: be, call, have · To what, where: great king, three sons · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sons of William the Conqueror.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great king, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 king | amod |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 England | case |
| 8 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 king | nmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 called | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 called | aux:pass |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 king | acl:relcl |
| 12 | Wil | Wil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 liam | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Wil | punct |
| 14 | liam | liam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 quer | det |
| 16 | Con | con | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 quer | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Con | punct |
| 18 | quer | quer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | xcomp |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 or | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 quer | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 had | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 had | cc |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 had | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 sons | nummod |
| 26 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 had | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a great king of England | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | call | past · passive | a great king of England | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | have | past | king | three sons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
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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