Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sword of Damocles., sentence 9
"No, not that, O king!" said Dam-o-cles; "but I think, that, if I could only have your riches and your pleas-ures for one day, I should not want any greater hap-pi-ness."
Who acts: king, greater hap · What happens: say, think, have, not want, ness · To what, where: that, riches · 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 (king, greater hap), 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 that | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 that | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 that | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 that | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 that | punct |
| 7 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 8 king | discourse |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 king | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 king | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Dam | Dam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 cles | punct |
| 14 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 16 cles | case |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 o | punct |
| 16 | cles | cle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Dam | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 think | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 but | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 think | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 think | nsubj |
| 21 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 that | punct |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 think | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 have | punct |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 have | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 have | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 have | aux |
| 28 | only | only | ADV | _ | 29 have | advmod |
| 29 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 think | conj |
| 30 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 riches | nmod:poss |
| 31 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 have | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 pleas | cc |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 pleas | nmod:poss |
| 34 | pleas | plea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 riches | conj |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 ures | punct |
| 36 | ures | ure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 riches | conj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 day | case |
| 38 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 day | nummod |
| 39 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ures | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 want | punct |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 want | nsubj |
| 42 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 want | aux |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 want | advmod |
| 44 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 think | ccomp |
| 45 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 51 ness | det |
| 46 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 47 hap | amod |
| 47 | hap | hap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 ness | nsubj |
| 48 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 hap | punct |
| 49 | pi | pi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 ness | compound |
| 50 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 51 ness | punct |
| 51 | ness | ness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 want | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 44 want | punct |
| 53 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | king | that | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | present | king | that | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | could | king | your riches and your pleas and ures for one day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rich=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not want in a quote | should | king | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | ness in a quote | greater hap | 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.
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