Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Soldier., sentence 12
"Drink," said he, "for thy need is greater than mine."
Who acts: Drink, soldier, thy · What happens: say, be, need · 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 (Drink, soldier, thy), 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 Drink | punct |
| 2 | Drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Drink | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Drink | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 greater | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 greater | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 greater | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 need | case |
| 10 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 need | nmod:poss |
| 11 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 greater | obl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 greater | cop |
| 13 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 mine | case |
| 15 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 greater | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Drink | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | soldier | for thy need; than Drink; great property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | need in a quote | thy | nom need «state transitive»: poss=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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