Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Socrates and His House., sentence 4

"What is the reason," said they, "that you, who are so great a man, should build such a little box as this for your dwelling house?"

Who acts: you, neighbors · What happens: be, say, build · To what, where: reason, little box · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Socrates and His House.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, neighbors), 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 reason	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 reason	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reason	det
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 reason	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 reason	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	parataxis
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 build	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 they	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 build	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 great	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 great	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 great	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 great	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 great	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 great	advmod
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 build	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 great	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 great	punct
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 build	aux
23	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
24	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	27 box	det:predet
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 box	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 box	amod
27	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 build	obj
28	as	as	ADP	_	29 this	case
29	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 build	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	33 house	case
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 house	nmod:poss
32	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 house	compound
33	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 build	obl
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 reason	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		the reason		tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	you		great property	tree rules
4	build in a quote	should	neighbors = neighbor	such little box	as this; for your dwelling house	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent box=Material for house=Beneficiary

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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