Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sword of Damocles., sentence 28
"That sword! that sword!" cried Damocles.
Who acts: sword · What happens: cry · To what, where: Damocles
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sword of Damocles.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword), 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 | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 2 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sword | det |
| 3 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 sword | punct |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 sword | det |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sword | appos |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 sword | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sword | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Damocles | Damocles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | that sword | Damocles | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damocles=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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