Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sword of Damocles., sentence 8
"Perhaps you would like to change places with me," said the tyrant.
Who acts: you, tyrant · What happens: like, change, say · To what, where: places · 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 (you, tyrant), 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 like | punct |
| 2 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 5 like | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 like | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 like | aux |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 change | mark |
| 7 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 like | xcomp |
| 8 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 change | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 change | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 like | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tyrant | det |
| 15 | tyrant | tyrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like in a quote | would | you | perhaps property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | change not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | places | with the tyrant = tyrant | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent place=Theme with i=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the tyrant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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