Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 67

"The hawk saved my life!" he cried; "and how did I repay him?

Who acts: hawk · What happens: save, cry, repay · To what, where: life, hawk · 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), 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	_	4 saved	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hawk	det
3	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saved	nsubj
4	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	advcl
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 life	nmod:poss
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saved	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 saved	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 saved	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 repay	cc
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	17 repay	advmod
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 repay	aux
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 repay	nsubj
17	repay	repay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 repay	obj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	save in a quote	past	the hawk	my life		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	hawk			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	repay in a quote	past · do-support	hawk		hawk	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=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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