Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 38
So it hap-pened in the end very much as the wise men had fore-told.
Who acts: wise men · What happens: pene, have, tell · To what, where: clared, end · 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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 pened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | hap | hap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pened | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 hap | punct |
| 5 | pened | pene | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pened | obl |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 pened | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 had | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 men | det |
| 13 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 men | amod |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 much | advcl |
| 16 | fore | fore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 fore | punct |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 had | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pene | participle · passive | clared | in the end | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the wise men | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | participle | the wise men not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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