Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 23
He had been taught to read and write, and for that reason he was nick-named Beau-clerc, or the Hand-some Schol-ar.
Who acts: brother, Hand · What happens: teach, read, write, name, ar · To what, where: brother
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 (brother, Hand), 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 | 4 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taught | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 taught | aux:pass |
| 4 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 read | mark |
| 6 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 taught | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 write | cc |
| 8 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 read | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 named | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 named | cc |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 reason | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 reason | det |
| 13 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 named | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 named | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 named | aux:pass |
| 16 | nick | nick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 named | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 nick | punct |
| 18 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 taught | conj |
| 19 | Beau | Beau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 clerc | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Beau | punct |
| 21 | clerc | clerc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 named | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ar | punct |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 ar | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ar | det |
| 25 | Hand | Hand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 ar | nsubj |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 ar | punct |
| 27 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 ar | det |
| 28 | Schol | schol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ar | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Schol | punct |
| 30 | ar | AR | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taught | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past · perfect · passive | brother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | read | to-infinitive | brother not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | write | infinitive | brother not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | name | past · passive | brother | for that reason | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ar | Hand | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/6/23/