Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 36
Then he stood up, and said, "Tell me, my little folks, to what kingdom do I belong?"
Who acts: king, kingdom · What happens: stand up, say, tell, belong · To what, where: little folks, 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 (king, kingdom), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 stood | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tell | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tell | punct |
| 10 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 Tell | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 folks | punct |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 folks | nmod:poss |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 folks | amod |
| 15 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Tell | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 what | punct |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 what | case |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 said | ccomp |
| 19 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 belong | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 belong | aux |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 belong | nsubj |
| 22 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | king | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | king not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | my little folks | king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | belong in a quote | present · do-support | kingdom | 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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