Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 16
The next who came was young William, his father's name-sake and pet.
Who acts: next · What happens: come, be · To what, where: young William
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 (next), 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 next | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 William | cop |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 William | amod |
| 7 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sake | punct |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sake | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 father | case |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sake | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 name | punct |
| 14 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 William | appos |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pet | cc |
| 16 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sake | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the next | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | young William | 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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