Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 64
"Truly I believe that the people of Gotham are all fools," said one of the horsemen.
Who acts: I, people · What happens: believe, be, say · To what, where: fools, one · 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 (I, people), 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 | _ | 4 believe | punct |
| 2 | Truly | truly | ADV | _ | 4 believe | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 said | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 people | det |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fools | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Gotham | case |
| 9 | Gotham | Gotham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 people | nmod |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fools | cop |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 fools | advmod |
| 12 | fools | fool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fools | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 fools | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | ccomp |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 said | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 horsemen | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 horsemen | det |
| 19 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe in a quote | present | I | truly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the people of Gotham | fools | all property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | one of the horsemen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=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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