Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 22

"It is the fruit of a plant, and all plants belong to that kingdom," said the boy.

Who acts: e, plants, boy · What happens: be, belong, say · To what, where: fruit · 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 (e, plants, boy), 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 fruit	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fruit	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fruit	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fruit	det
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 plant	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 plant	det
8	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fruit	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 belong	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 belong	cc
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 plants	det
12	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 belong	nsubj
13	belong	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fruit	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 kingdom	case
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 kingdom	det
16	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 belong	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fruit	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 fruit	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 boy	det
21	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	e	the fruit	of a plant	tree rules
2	belong in a quote	present	all plants		to that kingdom	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the boy			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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