Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Bruce and the Spider., sentence 25
I have heard it said, that, after that day, no one by the name of Bruce would ever hurt a spider.
Who acts: I, Battle, one · What happens: hear, say, hurt, name · To what, where: spider, Bruce · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Bruce and the Spider.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Battle, one), 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 | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | aux |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 day | punct |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 day | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 day | punct |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hurt | nsubj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 name | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 name | det |
| 17 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Bruce | case |
| 19 | Bruce | Bruce | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 name | nmod |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 hurt | aux |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 hurt | advmod |
| 22 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 day | acl:relcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 spider | det |
| 24 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hurt | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · perfect | I | day | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Battle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hurt | would | no one by the name of Bruce | a spider | ever | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spider=Patient | |||
| 4 | name | Bruce | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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