Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 76
"He pleads his cause as well as any dumb brute can," said another.
Who acts: miser, dumb brute · What happens: plead, say, cause · To what, where: cause, another · 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 (miser, dumb brute), 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 | _ | 3 pleads | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pleads | nsubj |
| 3 | pleads | plead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cause | nmod:poss |
| 5 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pleads | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 3 pleads | advmod |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 as | fixed |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 as | fixed |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 brute | det |
| 10 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 brute | amod |
| 11 | brute | brute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pleads | obj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 can | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 can | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 brute | acl:relcl |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pleads | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plead speech: request in a quote | present | miser | miser's cause | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | any dumb brute not said here | another | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent another=Topic | ||||
| 3 | cause in a quote | miser | nom cause «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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