Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 18
"We cannot stay here and see them die," said Grace. "
Who acts: We, men, Grace · What happens: not stay, see, die, say · To what, where: men · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Grace Darling.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, men, Grace), 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 stay | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stay | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 stay | advmod |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stay | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 see | cc |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stay | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 see | obj |
| 10 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 see | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Grace | Grace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stay in a quote | can | We | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | We not said here | men = man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | die in a quote | infinitive | men = man not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Grace | 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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