Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 25

"Ah the sad day! the sad day!" he kept saying to himself.

Who acts: Hood · What happens: keep, say · To what, where: Hood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Story of Robin Hood.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hood), 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	_	13 kept	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	13 kept	discourse
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 day	det
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 day	amod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kept	obl:unmarked
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 day	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 day	det
8	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 day	amod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 day	appos
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 day	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 day	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kept	nsubj
13	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 kept	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 himself	case
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 saying	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Hood				day		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Hood not said here		Hood				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient

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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