Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 38
"And what are _you_ doing?" said the sheriff to the young men.
Who acts: young men, sheriff · What happens: be, do, say · To what, where: young men · 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 (young men, sheriff), 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 what | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 what | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 said | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 what | nsubj |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 doing | punct |
| 8 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 what | parataxis |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 doing | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sheriff | det |
| 13 | sheriff | sheriff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 men | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 men | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 men | amod |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the young men = man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | gerund | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the sheriff | the young men | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to man=Recipient |
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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