Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Doctor Goldsmith., sentence 15
"Here is the med-i-cine," he said. "
Who acts: med i cine, Goldsmith · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Doctor Goldsmith.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (med i cine, Goldsmith), 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 | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cine | det |
| 5 | med | med | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cine | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 med | punct |
| 7 | i | i | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cine | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 cine | punct |
| 9 | cine | cine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Here | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | parataxis |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the med i cine | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Goldsmith | 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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