Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Soldier., sentence 23
"Because, sir," said the soldier, "I could never kill a wounded enemy."
Who acts: soldier · What happens: say, not kill · To what, where: wounded enemy · 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 (soldier), 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 | _ | 15 kill | punct |
| 2 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 said | mark |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sir | punct |
| 4 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sir | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sir | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 kill | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 soldier | det |
| 9 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 kill | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 kill | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 kill | advmod |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 enemy | det |
| 17 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 enemy | amod |
| 18 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kill | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 kill | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the soldier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not kill in a quote | could | the soldier = soldier | a wounded enemy | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=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.
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