Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Guest., sentence 12
"Only a churlish farmer, who has never done anything for his country," said the soldier.
Who acts: churlish farmer, soldier · What happens: not do, say · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Ungrateful Guest.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (churlish farmer, soldier), 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 farmer | punct |
| 2 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 farmer | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 farmer | det |
| 4 | churlish | churlish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 farmer | amod |
| 5 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 done | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 done | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 done | aux |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 done | advmod |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 farmer | acl:relcl |
| 11 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 done | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 country | nmod:poss |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 anything | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 farmer | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 farmer | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 soldier | det |
| 19 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | present · perfect | a churlish farmer | anything | for farmer's country | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the soldier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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