Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 37
"Yes," said the judges, "it is a very good rope.
Who acts: judges, vine · What happens: say, be · To what, where: good rope · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Bell of Atri.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (judges, vine), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 judges | det |
| 7 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rope | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 rope | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 rope | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 rope | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rope | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 good | advmod |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rope | amod |
| 15 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 judges | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the judges | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | vine | a good rope | tree rules |
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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