Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 24
"I was sent from Carthage to ask you to make peace," he said. "
Who acts: Regulus · What happens: send, ask, make, say · To what, where: Regulus, Carthage, you, peace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of Regulus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Regulus), 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 | _ | 4 sent | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | aux:pass |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 said | ccomp |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 Carthage | case |
| 6 | Carthage | Carthage | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 ask | mark |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sent | advcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 ask | iobj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 make | mark |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ask | xcomp |
| 12 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in a quote | past · passive | Regulus | Carthage | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from carthage=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | peace | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Regulus | 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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