Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 18
"Great king," he said, "is it true that you offer a prize to the man who can tell a story that has no end?"
Who acts: king, it, you, man, story · What happens: say, be, offer, tell, have · To what, where: prize, man, story, end · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Endless Tale.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, it, you, man), 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 king | punct |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 king | amod |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 true | csubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 true | cop |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 true | nsubj |
| 12 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 offer | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 offer | nsubj |
| 15 | offer | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 true | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 prize | det |
| 17 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 offer | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 man | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 offer | obl |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 tell | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 tell | aux |
| 23 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 man | acl:relcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 story | det |
| 25 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tell | obj |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 has | nsubj |
| 27 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 story | acl:relcl |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 end | det |
| 29 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 has | obj |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 true | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | it | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | offer in a quote | present | you | a prize | the man | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent prize=Theme to man=Goal | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | can | the man | a story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | a story | no end | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient |
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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