Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 8
"You help me!" cried the abbot "How? how?"
Who acts: You, abbot · What happens: help, cry · 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, abbot), 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 help | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 help | nsubj |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 help | obj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 abbot | det |
| 9 | abbot | abbot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 How | punct |
| 11 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 cried | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 How | punct |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 How | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help in a quote | present | You | the abbot = abbot | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the abbot | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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