Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 21
It is feared by all other birds, and is there-fore the king of them all."
Who acts: other birds, fore · What happens: fear, be · To what, where: face
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 (other birds, fore), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 feared | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 feared | aux:pass |
| 3 | feared | fear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 birds | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 birds | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 birds | amod |
| 7 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 feared | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 is | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 is | cc |
| 10 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 feared | conj |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 is | expl |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 fore | punct |
| 13 | fore | fore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 is | nsubj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 them | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fore | nmod |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feared | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 feared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | present · passive | all other birds | face | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | be | present | fore of sake | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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