Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 38
Some thought of saying, "To the kingdom of Prussia."
Who acts: thought · What happens: say · 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 (thought), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 thought | det |
| 2 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 4 saying | mark |
| 4 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 thought | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 kingdom | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 kingdom | punct |
| 7 | To | to | ADP | _ | 9 kingdom | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kingdom | det |
| 9 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saying | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Prussia | case |
| 11 | Prussia | Prussia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 kingdom | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 kingdom | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 kingdom | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | some thought not said here | 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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