Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar., sentence 18

"Alfred, my son, be brave," said the man; "for I am the one to whom you gave this day the half of all the food that you had.

Who acts: Alfred, man, King, you · What happens: be, say, give, have · To what, where: half, food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Beggar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alfred, man, King, you), 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	_	2 Alfred	punct
2	Alfred	Alfred	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 brave	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 son	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 son	nmod:poss
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Alfred	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Alfred	punct
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 brave	cop
8	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 brave	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 brave	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 brave	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 one	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 one	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	20 one	case
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 one	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 one	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brave	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 whom	case
22	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 one	nmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 gave	nsubj
24	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 whom	acl:relcl
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 day	det
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gave	obj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 half	det
28	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	24 gave	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 food	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 food	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 food	det
32	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 half	nmod
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 had	obj
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 had	nsubj
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 food	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 brave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	infinitive	Alfred			brave property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	King			for the one	tree rules
4	give in a quote	past	you	the half of all food	day		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme
5	have in a quote	past	you	all food			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient

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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