Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 16

"You know that we all live in the king-dom of Prussia," he said; "but tell me, to what king-dom does this orange belong?"

Who acts: You, we, king, orange · What happens: know, live, say, tell, belong · To what, where: king dom, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Kingdoms.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, we, king, orange), 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	_	3 know	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 said	ccomp
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 live	mark
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 live	nsubj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 live	advmod
7	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 know	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 dom	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dom	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dom	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 king	punct
12	dom	dom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 live	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Prussia	case
14	Prussia	Prussia	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 dom	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 tell	cc
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 tell	iobj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 what	punct
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 what	case
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 belong	obl
27	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 dom	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 king	punct
29	dom	dom	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 what	nsubj
30	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 belong	aux
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 orange	det
32	orange	orange	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 belong	nsubj
33	belong	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 tell	ccomp
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	You			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	live in a quote	present	we		the king dom of Prussia	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dom=Location
3	say speech: ask	past	king			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
5	belong in a quote	present · do-support	this orange			vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

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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