Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 19
"Our wits have kept the king out of the town," said one; "and so now our wits must save our noses."
Who acts: wits · What happens: keep, say, save · To what, where: wits, town, one, noses · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Other Wise 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 (wits), 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 kept | punct |
| 2 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wits | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kept | aux |
| 5 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 town | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 town | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 town | det |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kept | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 kept | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 kept | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 said | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 save | cc |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 save | advmod |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 save | advmod |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wits | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 save | nsubj |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 save | aux |
| 24 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | conj |
| 25 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 noses | nmod:poss |
| 26 | noses | nose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 save | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 save | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Our wits | the town | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme king=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | one | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | save in a quote | must | our wits | our noses | now | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme |
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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