Fifty Famous Stories Retold, How Napoleon Crossed the Alps., sentence 6
Then one of them said, "It may be possible, but"--
Who acts: one, ble · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, How Napoleon Crossed the Alps.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, ble), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 one | nmod |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 possible | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 possible | punct |
| 8 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 possible | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 possible | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 possible | cop |
| 11 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 " | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 " | cc |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | one of mountains | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | may | ble | possible property | 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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