Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Julius Caesar., sentence 16
They said, "See how that fellow struts at the head of his little flock!"
Who acts: cers, that · What happens: say, see, strut · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Julius Caesar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cers, that), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 See | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 See | punct |
| 5 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 struts | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 struts | nsubj |
| 8 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 struts | amod |
| 9 | struts | strut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 See | obl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 head | det |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 See | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 flock | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 flock | nmod:poss |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 flock | amod |
| 16 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 head | nmod |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 See | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | cers = cer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | the head of Caesar's little flock | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | strut in a quote | that | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/16/