Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Three Men of Gotham., sentence 25
"Now look at me," he said, "and learn a lesson."
Who acts: you, Peter · What happens: look, say, learn · To what, where: lesson · 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 (you, Peter), 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 | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 look | advmod |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 look | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 learn | cc |
| 13 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 look | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lesson | det |
| 15 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 learn | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | imperative | you not said here | now | at Peter | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Peter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | learn in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | a lesson | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Topic |
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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