Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Androclus and the Lion., sentence 37
"I am a man," he said; "but no man has ever befriended me.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, say, befriend · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Androclus and the Lion.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 man | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 man | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 befriended | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 befriended | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 befriended | cc |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 befriended | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 befriended | aux |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 befriended | advmod |
| 17 | befriended | befriend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | ccomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 befriended | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a man = man | a man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | befriend in a quote | present · perfect · passive | no man | ever | 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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