Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 51
"Now, Sir Hawk," he said, "this is the last time."
Who acts: Hawk, this · What happens: say, be · To what, where: last time · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The King and His Hawk.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hawk, this), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Hawk | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Hawk | Hawk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hawk | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hawk | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 time | punct |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 time | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 time | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 time | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hawk Sir | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this | the last time | tree rules |
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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