Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 42
He led a wicked life, and was killed by one of his own men while hunting in the forest.
Who acts: William · What happens: lead, kill, hunt · To what, where: wicked life, forest
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 (William), 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 | 2 led | nsubj |
| 2 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 life | det |
| 4 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 life | amod |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 led | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 killed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 killed | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 killed | aux:pass |
| 9 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 led | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 one | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 killed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 men | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 men | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 men | amod |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 one | nmod |
| 16 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 hunting | mark |
| 17 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 killed | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 forest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forest | det |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hunting | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | William | a wicked life | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | past · passive | William not said here | by one of William's own men | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||
| 3 | hunt | gerund | William not said here | the forest | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location |
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/pg18442/6/42/