Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Diogenes the Wise Man., sentence 8
"Why do you carry a lantern when the sun is shining?" some one said.
Who acts: you, sun, one · What happens: carry, shine, say · To what, where: lantern · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Diogenes the Wise Man.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sun, one), 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 carry | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 carry | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 carry | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 carry | nsubj |
| 5 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lantern | det |
| 7 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carry | obj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 shining | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shining | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 shining | aux |
| 12 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 carry | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 carry | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 carry | punct |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry in a quote | present · do-support | you | a lantern | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lantern=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shine in a quote | present · progressive | the sun | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | some one | 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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