Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 5
"Cheer up, cheer up, good master," said the shepherd. "
Who acts: shepherd · What happens: cheer up, say · 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 (shepherd), 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 | _ | 2 Cheer | punct |
| 2 | Cheer | cheer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 Cheer | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cheer | punct |
| 5 | cheer | cheer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Cheer | conj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 cheer | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 master | punct |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 master | amod |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cheer | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cheer | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cheer | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shepherd | det |
| 14 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cheer up in a quote | infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | cheer up in a quote | infinitive | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the shepherd | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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