Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 28
"Now to what kingdom does this belong?" he asked.
Who acts: this, king · What happens: belong, ask · 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 (this, king), 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 | _ | 8 belong | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 belong | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 what | case |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 belong | obl |
| 5 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 what | nsubj |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 belong | aux |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 belong | nsubj |
| 8 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 belong | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 belong | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong in a quote | present · do-support | this | now | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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