Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Three Men of Gotham., sentence 23
It is strange that you will never learn wisdom.--Come here, Peter, and help me lay my sack on my shoul-der."
Who acts: ing, you, me · What happens: be, not learn, come, help, lay · To what, where: wisdom, me, sack, shoul der · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Three Men of Gotham.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ing, you, me), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 strange | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 strange | cop |
| 3 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 learn | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 learn | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 learn | aux |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 learn | advmod |
| 8 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 strange | advcl |
| 9 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 learn | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 learn | punct |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 Come | punct |
| 12 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 learn | ccomp |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 Come | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Peter | punct |
| 15 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Come | vocative |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 help | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 help | cc |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 learn | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 help | obj |
| 20 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 help | xcomp |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sack | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lay | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 der | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 der | nmod:poss |
| 25 | shoul | shoul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 der | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 shoul | punct |
| 27 | der | der | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lay | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 strange | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 strange | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | ing | strange property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not learn | future | you | wisdom | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | here | Peter vocative | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | help | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lay | infinitive | me not said here | my sack | my shoul der | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sack=Theme on der=Destination |
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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