Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 83
"This horse has served you well for many a year," they said. "
Who acts: judges · What happens: serve, say · To what, where: horse · 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 | _ | 5 served | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 horse | det |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 served | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 served | aux |
| 5 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 said | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 served | obj |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 served | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 year | case |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 year | amod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 year | det |
| 11 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 served | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 served | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 served | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve in a quote | present · perfect · passive | this horse | year | well property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | judges = judge | 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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