Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Soldier., sentence 1

Here is another story of the bat-tle-field, and it is much like the one which I have just told you.

Who acts: story · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: one, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Ungrateful Soldier.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Here	cop
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Here	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	11 field	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 field	det
7	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tle	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 bat	punct
9	tle	tle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 field	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 tle	punct
11	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 story	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 one	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 one	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 one	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 one	cop
16	much	much	ADV	_	19 one	advmod
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 one	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Here	appos
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 told	nsubj:pass
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 told	nsubj:pass
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 told	aux
23	just	just	ADV	_	24 told	advmod
24	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 one	parataxis
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 told	iobj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	another story of the tle field			here property	tree rules
2	is	present	story			like the one	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		the one	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient you=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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