Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 54
"But why do you carry that door?" asked the sheriff.
Who acts: you, sheriff · What happens: carry, ask · To what, where: door · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 6 carry | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 carry | cc |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 carry | advmod |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 carry | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 carry | nsubj |
| 6 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carry | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 carry | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 carry | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sheriff | det |
| 13 | sheriff | sheriff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry in a quote | present · do-support | you | that door | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the sheriff | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how 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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