Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 36

King William lay upon his death-bed, and again he thought of what would become of his sons when he was gone.

Who acts: King · What happens: lie, think, become, be · To what, where: death bed · 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 (King), 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	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lay	nsubj
2	William	William	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 King	flat
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 bed	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bed	nmod:poss
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bed	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 death	punct
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thought	cc
11	again	again	ADV	_	13 thought	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thought	nsubj
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	advcl
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 become	mark
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 become	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 become	aux
17	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 thought	ccomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 sons	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sons	nmod:poss
20	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 become	obl
21	when	when	SCONJ	_	24 gone	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 gone	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 gone	cop
24	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 become	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	King	king's death bed			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bed=Location
2	think speech: other	past	king		again		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	become	would				of king's sons	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	is	past	king			gone property	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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