Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Philip Sidney., sentence 16

"Give the water to that man," said Sir Philip quickly; and then, pushing the cup toward him, he said, "Here, my comrade, take this.

Who acts: Philip · What happens: give, say, push, take · To what, where: water, man, cup, this · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Philip Sidney.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Philip), 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	_	2 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 man	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Philip	nmod:desc
12	Philip	Philip	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	12 Philip	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 pushing	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 pushing	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 pushing	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 pushing	punct
18	pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cup	det
20	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 pushing	obj
21	toward	toward	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 pushing	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Here	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 Here	punct
28	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 said	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 comrade	punct
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 comrade	nmod:poss
31	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Here	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 take	punct
33	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 said	ccomp
34	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 take	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	infinitive		the water	that man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent water=Theme to man=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	Philip Sir					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	push	gerund	Philip Sir not said here	the cup		then	toward Philip	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cup=Theme toward he=Trajectory
4	say speech: assert	past	Philip					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	take in a quote	infinitive		this				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/17/16/