Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Three Men of Gotham., sentence 27

"Now, neighbors," he said, "can you tell how much meal is in my sack?"

Who acts: neighbors, you, much meal · What happens: say, tell, be · To what, where: sack · 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 (neighbors, you, much meal), 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 neighbors	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 neighbors	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 neighbors	punct
4	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 neighbors	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 neighbors	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 meal	amod
16	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sack	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sack	cop
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 sack	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 sack	nmod:poss
20	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tell	ccomp
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	neighbors		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	much meal	my sack	tree rules

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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