Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 39
"Oh, we do the grunting while our fathers do the working," they answered.
Who acts: we, fathers · What happens: do, answer · To what, where: grunting, working · 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 (we, fathers), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 do | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 grunting | det |
| 7 | grunting | grunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obj |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fathers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | fathers | father | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 do | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 answered | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 working | det |
| 13 | working | working | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 answered | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 answered | nsubj |
| 17 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | we | the grunting | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grunting=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | our fathers | the working | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent working=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | fathers = father | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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