Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 27
Then the wise men talked with one another for a little while, and when they had agreed among themselves, they spoke to the king.
Who acts: wise men, men · What happens: talk, agree, speak · 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 (wise men, men), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 talked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 men | det |
| 3 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 talked | nsubj |
| 5 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 talked | obl |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 one | fixed |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 while | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 while | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 while | amod |
| 12 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 talked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 agreed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 agreed | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 agreed | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 agreed | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 agreed | aux |
| 18 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 talked | conj |
| 19 | among | among | ADP | _ | 20 themselves | case |
| 20 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 agreed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 spoke | punct |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 spoke | nsubj |
| 23 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 talked | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 king | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spoke | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past | the wise men | then; while | with one | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with one=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past · perfect | men = man | among men = man | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | men = man | to the king | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to king=Co-Agent |
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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