Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 30
"The second son, William, will be as brave and strong as the eagle; but he will be feared and hated for his cruel deeds.
Who acts: second son · What happens: be, fear, hate · To what, where: eagle
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 (second son), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 son | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 son | amod |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brave | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 William | punct |
| 6 | William | William | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 brave | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 brave | cop |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 brave | advmod |
| 11 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 strong | cc |
| 13 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 brave | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 eagle | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 eagle | det |
| 16 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 strong | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 feared | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 feared | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 feared | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 feared | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 feared | aux:pass |
| 22 | feared | fear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 brave | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hated | cc |
| 24 | hated | hate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 feared | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 deeds | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 27 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 deeds | amod |
| 28 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hated | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 brave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | the second son | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | the second son not said here | as the eagle | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fear in a quote | future · passive | eagle | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | hate in a quote | participle | for eagle's cruel deeds | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for deed=Attribute |
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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