Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sword of Damocles., sentence 35
I now see that I was mis-tak-en, and that the rich and pow-er-ful are not so happy as they seem.
Who acts: I, pow er ful, ful · What happens: see, be, not be, seem · To what, where: mis tak en · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, pow er ful, ful), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 see | advmod |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 en | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 en | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 en | cop |
| 7 | mis | mis | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 en | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 mis | punct |
| 9 | tak | tak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 en | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 tak | punct |
| 11 | en | en | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rich | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rich | cc |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 rich | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rich | det |
| 16 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 see | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 happy | cc |
| 18 | pow | pow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ful | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 pow | punct |
| 20 | er | er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ful | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 er | punct |
| 22 | ful | ful | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 happy | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 happy | cop |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 happy | advmod |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 happy | advmod |
| 26 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rich | conj |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 seem | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 seem | nsubj |
| 29 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 happy | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | I | mis tak en | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | pow er ful | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | seem | present | ful | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme |
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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