Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Soldier., sentence 7
"O sir! give me a drink, for I am dying."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: give, die · To what, where: drink, me
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, I), 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 | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 5 give | discourse |
| 3 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | vocative |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 sir | punct |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 drink | det |
| 8 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dying | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 dying | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 dying | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dying | aux |
| 13 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 give | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | imperative | you not said here | a drink | me | sir vocative | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient drink=Theme | ||
| 2 | die in a quote | present · progressive | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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