Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Cornelia's Jewels., sentence 28
"Is it true, Cor-ne-li-a, that you have no jewels?" asked her friend. "
Who acts: casket, you, friend · What happens: be, have, ask · To what, where: jewels · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Cornelia's Jewels.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (casket, you, friend), 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 true | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 true | nsubj |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Cor | punct |
| 6 | Cor | Cor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 true | appos |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Cor | punct |
| 8 | ne | ne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 li | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 ne | punct |
| 10 | li | li | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 true | parataxis |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 a | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 li | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 have | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | parataxis |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 jewels | det |
| 18 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 have | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 21 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | conj |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 friend | nmod:poss |
| 23 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 asked | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | casket | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | you | no jewels | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Cor's friend | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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