Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 7
I think I can help you out of your trouble."
Who acts: I, your · What happens: think, help, trouble · To what, where: you, trouble · 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 (I, your), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 think | nsubj |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 help | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | aux |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 think | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 help | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 trouble | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 trouble | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 10 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 help | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | help | can | I | you | your trouble | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | trouble | your | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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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