Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 81
"Go bring the miser before us," said the judges.
Who acts: judges · What happens: go, bring, say · To what, where: miser · 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), 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 | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Go | xcomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 miser | det |
| 5 | miser | miser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bring | obj |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 judges | det |
| 12 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | infinitive | the miser | before us | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent miser=Theme before we=Destination | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the judges | 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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