Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Soldier., sentence 24
"Then you deserve to be a no-ble-man," said the king.
Who acts: you, king · What happens: deserve, be, say · To what, where: ble man · 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 (you, king), 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 | _ | 4 deserve | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 deserve | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 deserve | nsubj |
| 4 | deserve | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 man | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 man | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 ble | det |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 no | punct |
| 10 | ble | ble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 man | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 ble | punct |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 deserve | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 deserve | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 deserve | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deserve in a quote | present | you | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | a ble man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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