Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 15

"Pooh, pooh!" said the watchman. "

Who acts: Pooh, watchman · What happens: pooh, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Black Douglas.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pooh, watchman), 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	_	4 pooh	punct
2	Pooh	Pooh	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 pooh	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Pooh	punct
4	pooh	pooh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 pooh	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 pooh	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pooh	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 watchman	det
9	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pooh	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 pooh	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pooh in a quote	present	Pooh						tree rules
2	say speech: express	past	the watchman						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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