Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Alexander and Bucephalus., sentence 20
"My son," said the king, "Macedon is too small a place for you.
Who acts: son, Macedon · What happens: say, be · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Alexander and Bucephalus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, Macedon), 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 | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 place | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 small | punct |
| 11 | Macedon | Macedon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 small | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 small | cop |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 small | advmod |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 place | amod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 king | acl:relcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 place | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My son | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Macedon | small property | 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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