Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 41
You think that I am the Abbot of Can-ter-bur-y.
Who acts: You, I · What happens: think, be · To what, where: Abbot · 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 think | nsubj |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 Abbot | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 Abbot | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Abbot | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Abbot | det |
| 7 | Abbot | Abbot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 think | ccomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Abbot | obl |
| 9 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 Abbot | appos |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Can | punct |
| 11 | ter | ter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bur | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 ter | punct |
| 13 | bur | bur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Can | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 y | punct |
| 15 | y | y | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bur | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | You | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | I | the Abbot | 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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