Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sword of Damocles., sentence 5
One day a friend of his, whose name was Dam'o-cles, said to him,--
Who acts: name, One day, Dam'o cles · What happens: be, say, name · To what, where: king · 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 (name, One day, Dam'o cles), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 friend | det |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | appos |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cles | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cles | nmod:poss |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cles | punct |
| 8 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 9 name | nmod:poss |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cles | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cles | cop |
| 11 | Dam'o | Dam'o | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 cles | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Dam'o | punct |
| 13 | cles | cle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 friend | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | king's Dam'o cles's name | of king's Dam'o cles | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | One day | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | name | king's Dam'o cles | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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