Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar., sentence 7
Then the king gave thanks to God, and said, "Give half of the loaf and half of the wine to this poor man."
Who acts: king · What happens: give, say · To what, where: thanks, God, half, poor man · 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 (king), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 gave | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 God | case |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Give | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Give | punct |
| 13 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 14 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 13 Give | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 loaf | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 loaf | det |
| 17 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 half | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 half | cc |
| 19 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 17 loaf | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 wine | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wine | det |
| 22 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 half | nmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 man | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 man | det |
| 25 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 man | amod |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Give | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Give | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the king | thanks | God | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme to god=Recipient | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | infinitive | half of the loaf and half of the wine | this poor man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent half=Theme to man=Recipient |
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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