Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Miller of the Dee., sentence 18

For here is the River Dee, and every day it turns my mill; and the mill grinds the corn that feeds my wife, my babes, and me."

Who acts: River Dee, Dee, mill, corn · What happens: be, turn, grind, feed · To what, where: mill, corn, wife

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 (River Dee, Dee, mill, corn), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 here	case
2	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 here	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Dee	det
5	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Dee	compound
6	Dee	Dee	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 here	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 turns	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 turns	cc
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turns	obl:unmarked
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 turns	nsubj
12	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 Dee	acl:relcl
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 mill	nmod:poss
14	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turns	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 grinds	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 grinds	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mill	det
18	mill	mill	NOUN	_	19 grinds	nsubj
19	grinds	grind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 turns	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 corn	det
21	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 grinds	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 feeds	nsubj
23	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 corn	acl:relcl
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 wife	nmod:poss
25	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 feeds	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 babes	punct
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 babes	nmod:poss
28	babes	babe	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 wife	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 me	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 me	cc
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 here	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 here	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the River Dee				me obl; here property	tree rules
2	turn	present	Dee	my mill		day		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme mill=Result
3	grind	present	the mill	the corn				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient
4	feed	present	the corn		my wife and my babes			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient

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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