Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 9

"Well," answered the shepherd, "you know that everybody says that I look just like you, and that I have some-times been mis-tak-en for you.

Who acts: shepherd, you, everybody, times · What happens: answer, know, say, look, have, be · To what, where: some, mis tak en · 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, you, everybody, times), 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	_	5 answered	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shepherd	det
7	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 know	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 know	nsubj
11	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 says	mark
13	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 says	nsubj
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 know	ccomp
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 look	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 look	nsubj
17	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 says	ccomp
18	just	just	ADV	_	20 you	advmod
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 you	case
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 look	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 have	cc
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 have	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 have	nsubj
25	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 know	conj
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 have	obj
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 some	punct
28	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 en	nsubj
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 en	cop
30	mis	mis	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 en	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 mis	punct
32	tak	tak	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 en	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 en	punct
34	en	en	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 have	parataxis
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 you	case
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 en	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the shepherd			tree rules
2	know in a quote	present	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert in a quote	present	everybody			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look in a quote	present	the shepherd = shepherd		like you	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	have in a quote	present	the shepherd = shepherd	some		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
6	is a in a quote	participle	times	mis tak en	for you	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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