Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar., sentence 19
Be strong and joyful of heart, and listen to what I say.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: be, listen, say · 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 (you, I), 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 strong | cop |
| 2 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 joyful | cc |
| 4 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 strong | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 heart | case |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 joyful | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 listen | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 listen | cc |
| 9 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 strong | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 what | case |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 listen | obl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 say | nsubj |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | you not said here | of heart | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | listen | infinitive | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | I | 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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