English Fairy Tales, XXXI. Dick Whittington., sentence 9

For besides his three mayoralties of 1397, 1406, and 1419, he served as Lord Mayor in place of Adam Bamme, deceased, in the latter half of the mayoralty of 1396.

Who acts: London · What happens: beside, serve, decease · To what, where: three mayoralties, latter half

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXI. Dick Whittington.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (London), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 besides	case
2	besides	beside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mayoralties	nmod:poss
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 mayoralties	nummod
5	mayoralties	mayoralty	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 besides	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 1397	case
7	1397	1397	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 mayoralties	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 1406	punct
9	1406	1406	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 1397	flat
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 besides	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 1419	cc
12	1419	1419	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 besides	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 served	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 served	nsubj
15	served	serve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 besides	parataxis
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 Mayor	case
17	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Mayor	compound
18	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 served	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 place	case
20	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 served	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Adam	case
22	Adam	Adam	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 place	nmod
23	Bamme	Bamme	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Adam	flat
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 deceased	punct
25	deceased	decease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 served	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 half	punct
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 half	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 half	det
29	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 half	amod
30	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	25 deceased	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 mayoralty	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 mayoralty	det
33	mayoralty	mayoralty	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 half	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 1396	case
35	1396	1396	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	33 mayoralty	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 besides	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	beside	present		London's three mayoralties of 1397			tree rules
2	serve	past	London			as Lord Mayor; in place of Adam	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in place=Attribute
3	decease	past	London not said here		the latter half of the mayoralty of 1396		vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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