Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 32
"Let us send another man in your place," they said.
Who acts: us, men · What happens: let, send, say · To what, where: us, man, place · 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 (us, men), 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 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 man | det |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 send | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 place | nmod:poss |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 send | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | send in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | another man | your place | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme in place=Destination | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | men = man | 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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