Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 33
And now tell me how soon I may ride round the world."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: tell, ride · To what, where: me, world · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Three Answers.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 tell | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 tell | advmod |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 soon | advmod |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 ride | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 ride | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 ride | aux |
| 9 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tell | parataxis |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ride | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | ride | may | I | the world | soon property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round world=Trajectory |
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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