Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Damon and Pythias., sentence 8
Then a young man whose name was Da-mon spoke and said,--
Who acts: name, young man, Da mon · What happens: be, speak, say, name · To what, where: Da mon · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Damon and Pythias.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, young man, Da mon), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 man | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spoke | nsubj |
| 5 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 6 name | nmod:poss |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mon | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 mon | cop |
| 8 | Da | Da | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 mon | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Da | punct |
| 10 | mon | mon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 man | acl:relcl |
| 11 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 spoke | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Da mon's name | Da mon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | a young man | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | a young man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | name | Da mon | 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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