Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Miller of the Dee., sentence 13
"I am sure I could not think of changing places with you, sir," he said.
Who acts: miller · What happens: be, not think, change, say · To what, where: places · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Miller of the Dee.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miller), 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 sure | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | cop |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 said | ccomp |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 think | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 think | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 think | advmod |
| 8 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 changing | mark |
| 10 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 think | advcl |
| 11 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 changing | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 places | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sir | punct |
| 15 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 places | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | miller | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not think speech: other in a quote | could | miller | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | change in a quote | gerund | miller not said here | places and sir | with you | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent place=Theme with you=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | miller | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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