Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 53
"I have just started on a long jour-ney," said the man.
Who acts: man · What happens: start, say · To what, where: long jour ney · 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 (man), 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 started | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 started | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 started | aux |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 started | advmod |
| 5 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 ney | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ney | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ney | amod |
| 9 | jour | jour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ney | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 jour | punct |
| 11 | ney | ney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 started | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 started | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 started | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start in a quote | present · perfect | the man = man | a long jour ney | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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