Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 46
"O king! that cannot be," said the shepherd; "for I can neither read nor write."
Who acts: king · What happens: say, read, write · To what, where: shepherd · 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 (king), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 king | discourse |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 be | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 be | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 be | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 king | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shepherd | det |
| 13 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 read | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 read | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 read | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 read | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 read | aux |
| 19 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 20 read | advmod |
| 20 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 21 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 write | cc |
| 22 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 read | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 read | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | king | the shepherd | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | read in a quote | can | king | neither property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | write in a quote | infinitive | king not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «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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