Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 47
"I am a bold harper," said Robin, "the best in the north country."
Who acts: bold harper · What happens: be, say · To what, where: bold harper · 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 (bold harper), 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 | _ | 6 harper | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 harper | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 harper | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 harper | det |
| 5 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 harper | amod |
| 6 | harper | harper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 harper | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 harper | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Robin | Robin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 best | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 best | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 best | det |
| 14 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 country | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 country | det |
| 17 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 country | compound |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 best | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a bold harper = harper | a bold harper | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a bold harper | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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