Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 28
"Hush ye, hush ye, little pet ye, Hush ye, hush ye, do not fret ye, The Black Douglas shall not get ye."
Who acts: ye, Black Douglas · What happens: hush, not fret, not get · To what, where: ye
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 (ye, Black Douglas), 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 hush | punct |
| 2 | Hush | hush | INTJ | _ | 5 hush | discourse |
| 3 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 hush | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hush | punct |
| 5 | hush | hush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 hush | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pet | punct |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pet | amod |
| 9 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hush | vocative |
| 10 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 hush | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Hush | punct |
| 12 | Hush | Hush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 hush | obl |
| 13 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 Hush | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hush | punct |
| 15 | hush | hush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hush | conj |
| 16 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 hush | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fret | punct |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 fret | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 fret | advmod |
| 20 | fret | fret | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 hush | parataxis |
| 21 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 fret | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 get | punct |
| 23 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Douglas | det |
| 24 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Douglas | compound |
| 25 | Douglas | Douglas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 get | nsubj |
| 26 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 get | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 get | advmod |
| 28 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 fret | conj |
| 29 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 get | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hush | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hush | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hush in a quote | infinitive | ye | ye | little pet vocative; ye obl:unmarked; Hush ye obl | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ye=Patient | |||
| 2 | hush in a quote | infinitive | ye not said here | ye | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ye=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not fret in a quote | infinitive · do-support | ye | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not get in a quote | shall | the Black Douglas | ye | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ye=Stimulus |
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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